Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hare, and all 32 people aboard Piedmont Flight 1480, bound for Charlotte, N.C., escaped injury. Smoke was "coming out of one engine," said a passenger. "We saw it leaning, almost falling off, and then it fell off." Neither Piedmont nor Federal Aviation Administration officials were prepared to offer an explanation last week for what caused the engine to fall...
Cormier's dream finally came to life in 1984 after Mike Steele, who built Depauw into a Division III power, turned down an offer to coach at Dartmouth. Big Green Athletic Director Ted Leland's next call was to Cormier. Five years later, Dartmouth (10-5 overall, 3-0 Ivy) is making a run for its first Ivy League championship in 30 years...
Another church-affiliated institution, Phillips University in Enid, Okla. (enrollment: 960), was approached last spring by Kyoto Institute of Technology, which offered $24 million for the entire school. Phillips' president, Robert Peck, refused. "Colleges are not bought and sold," he says. "We're not Quaker Oats." But he was under intense pressure to accept the offer from Enid's town fathers, who in March 1988 paid $14.3 million to keep the campus afloat, and now charge the university rent. As a compromise, Peck let Kyoto underwrite a summer program for up to 50 Japanese students...
...offer the ironist cannot refuse. Not only is the commissioner his long-loathed brother, he is also the man who married Christine (Susan Sarandon), a haughty socialite for whom Nick still yearns. His price for cooperation? One tete-a-tete with that ambiguous lady. In Shanley's world, it is inevitable that this does not go awfully well. Nick asks her to listen to the wine breathe, serves octopus for the main course and generally comes on too strong. It is also inevitable that a perfect substitute for Christine will soon turn up. And it does, in the form...
Piazza della Signoria -- one of the most beautiful squares in the world -- is, alas, in a state of upheaval. We know that you will be disappointed and would like to offer you all our apologies...