Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think that California offers us a last chance of redemption," MacPherson said. "If we do well in California, which everyone wants to do, it will vault us into what we want to do. We need big wins and these games can offer us that." HARVARD 0 CENTRAL CONN. 1 Central Connecticut, 1-0 at Silfen Field, Central Connecticut CCSU 0 0 1 0 -- 1 Harvard...
...officers heroically re-entered a collapsing building in order to save its inhabitants, despite orders to withdraw from the scene because their own lives were in danger. The tragedy of these two Brooklyn cops, models of both valour and depravity, is more poignant than anything the big-screen could offer. Unfortunately, the characters in the real life drama can expect no respite from the closing credits...
Odotei left Harvard to pursue, according to Fertik, a "very sexy job offer in Hollywood." He will be working in production and marketing at a "fast-growing independent film house," Fertik added...
This was an offer--for the Reagan Ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif.--all too many were able to refuse. The Western White House sat on the market for 13 months until the perfect buyer, one who can print money if he has to, showed an interest: Uncle Sam. Republican Congressman Ralph Regula of Ohio, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee in charge of federal parks, is brokering a deal whereby Congress will appropriate $5 million and give it to California, which will in turn give it to the Reagans for the 100-year-old adobe house and grounds they paid...
Save, perhaps, for the title character's coma, Larry's Party would seem to offer readers an experience about as exciting as watching shrubs grow. But Shields demonstrates that doing just that can be fascinating if seen through the speeded-up, time-lapse frames of her narrative. Larry develops from "a dreamy kid" into a grown man who feels that "he's been dozing off again." Life has pruned him for good and ill but not altered his essential stock. His passive nature, his curiosity about what will happen to him next, does not form the raw material for high...