Word: offers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With the end of mandatory retirement, there is a threat that FAS will come to resemble a useless geriatric ward. Retirement incentives, wielded appropriately, offer a promising solution to this problem. We hope that FAS will consider the interests of the students paramount to their charitable instincts and will encourage those past their prime to make room for fresh blood...
...editorial attacked programs which issue placebos to people with AIDS when testing inexpensive low-dose AZT treatments in Africa, on the grounds that failing to offer treatment is akin to the notorious Tuskegee experiments on men with syphillis ? for which President Clinton recently apologized. Defenders of using placebos in such research say they are the only way of proving that low doses of AZT are better than leaving the disease untreated...
That we would offer a forum to a murderer is in itself despicable, but that as a free press we would offer the right to speak without fear of persecution to a man who will not do the same is illogical...
...South American tour ? mixing high-level meetings and goodwill visits to slums with as many plugs as possible for the fast-track trade-agreement powers he is seeking from Congress. Then he finds himself in an impromptu Air Force One press briefing on campaign finance, assuring us he will offer himself to Janet Reno for questioning. As if all this wasn't enough, Clinton now has to decide exactly how he is going to use his line-item veto pencil on the $248 billion Defense Appropriations bill...
...agreed to pay for MCI, which said in July that it would lose $800 million trying to break into the local-phone market in 1997 and could have even larger losses next year. The cut angered MCI shareholders, who are now likely to jump at WorldCom's 66% higher offer. Ebbers figures he can afford that premium through economies of scale. He notes that 60% of WorldCom's cost is in the calls it handles. By carrying more traffic--MCI's--the cost ratio falls. He predicts that WorldCom could cut more than $2.5 billion a year in combined costs...