Word: proffer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans felt in watching the White House thrashing was offset by fear that Senator Fred Thompson's investigation of campaign finance would wind up biting them too. After all, the Republicans raised $200 million more than the Democrats last year without Air Force One or any presidential bedrooms to proffer. And while Bill Clinton may have sold tickets to his radio address, a minority whip called Newt Gingrich in 1990 offered Republican donors special briefings at the Bush White House and a chance to consult on policy...
Some legacies of the biggest case ever to unfurl continuously under the public eye are already evident. DNA sleuthing, exotic beyond belief a short while ago and still quite expensive, is becoming more common--as are more skeptical defense questions about lab procedures. "There is less need to proffer this evidence as if it's from some alien culture," says law professor John Dwyer of the University of California, Berkeley. "It's still not quite akin to, 'Here's a fingerprint--how can you possibly contest it?' but it's way different than it was 12 months ago." Already overburdened...
...only real excuse that one, even the diving one, might proffer on such an occasion is preoccupation. Has God been so backed up by other important business? Sure, the Streisand lecture must have absorbed much of his attention, not to mention the O.J. Simpson trial. (Court-TV is, of course, universal.) Really, is it such a demanding time commitment to drop a few flurries? Condensation we know just isn't that arduous...
...question what alternatives Bowdren would proffer in place of a nine day conference which devotes over 24 hours of discussion to the issues of rape and domestic violence...
Just as Nancy and Tonya have left our television screens, it appears that our beloved mass media has found another feast to proffer restless Americans. These days, the name of Michael Fay, the American teen vandal who will soon be caned in Singapore, constantly comes up on talk shows...