Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less than 36 hours later, Paxon was in Gingrich's office, volunteering to relinquish the leadership post that Gingrich had invented for him. "Newt," Paxon quavered, "if you want me to resign, I will." The next morning, Gingrich accepted the offer. And so it was that a G.O.P. rising star learned a bitter lesson: if you set out to kill the king, you had better make sure he's dead...
...most popular and thus worrisome in the index world. There are index funds for the broad market (Wilshire 5000), small companies (Russell 2000 and S&P 600), mid-size companies (S&P 400) and overseas companies (Morgan Stanley International). Any of those offer cover should the S&P 500 tumble hardest...
...could set. Microsoft was not doing anything other companies in the high-tech industry have not been doing for a long time. Many of them have freelancers who work right alongside full-time employees. The danger is that if these companies suddenly can't hire freelancers without having to offer full benefits, it's certainly going to raise labor costs and in some cases might result in fewer people being hired." Microsoft's employee classifications came under fire in 1990, when the IRS ruled the company had to treat the freelancers as employees for tax purposes, based on the type...
...turns out to look like a Club Med and to offer reunions with the dear departed, but without any sectarian representation of a diety. This turns cerebral Ellie into numinous jelly, but it is an alarming comedown from the director who played so entrancingly with time travel in the Back to the Future movies and gave us the delightful alternative reality of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The success of Forrest Gump has made him Hollywood's philosopher-king, free to spend a fortune doing for the simple pieties what he recently did for simple-mindedness: make them look like...
...whose power has been a constant source of friction on the Speaker's staff and in high G.O.P. circles. "Gaylord is the immovable object in Newt's life," says an aide to a top House Republican. "Tom never had a chance." In what he's telling associates is "the offer of a lifetime," Blank will become a senior executive at Union Pacific Resources Company in Fort Worth, Texas. No word on a replacement...