Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, athletes provide their own support groups. According to Gielen, upperclassmen on the basketball team regularly offer advice and encouragment to the younger players. And Beth Chandler '89, co-captain of the women's hoop squad, says several of the science concentrators on the team get together twice a week to study...
...usual, the burdens created by today's shortfalls are borne unevenly. The Soviet elite has always had access to luxury shops, and even many ordinary Soviets buy groceries through factory and office outlets that offer a wider selection than is available in state stores. But not all rubles are created equal: a top Soviet bureaucrat can buy a food package that may include canned crab, high-quality cheese, imported hard salami and lean meat. For a factory worker, the package would more likely contain chicken, less desirable cheese, domestic sausage and canned fish. Even some of the artful dodges developed...
Investigators privately admit that in the end they may have to depend on getting a tip from an informer to learn the identities of the terrorists. Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat agreed to assist the investigation last week, but the initial results of his offer only served to show how frustrating the probe could become. Even though Arafat maintains an extensive network of security men who keep an eye on Palestinian extremists, an Arafat spokesman said that "so far, the P.L.O. does not have any clues...
...other responsible for the painful and unpopular combination of program cuts and new revenues that will be needed to reduce the projected deficit of $127 billion to the $100 billion mandated under the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law. In a ritual game of budgetary chicken, neither side wants to offer the first specific ideas for cuts. Says a senior Bush transition official: "Cutting people's pet programs is a terribly negative way to start your Administration. We plan to postpone that as long as possible and let Congress clean up its own mess." Democratic leaders of Congress retort that Bush...
...those that produce chemical weapons. Experts say that with just the turn of some levers or the change of a catalyst, a plant can convert from the production of pest killers to people killers in as little as 24 hours. Small wonder, then, that the U.S. spurned Libya's offer for a one-time inspection of the facility at Rabta...