Word: proffered
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...panel ruled “the government has failed to proffer a shred of evidence” that the Solomon Amendment enhances national security, a prerequisite for the statute’s constitutionality. If anything, the panel argued, the policy “generate[s] ill will toward the military” and “actually impedes recruitment...
...Capitalizing on its Western-trained medics and a favorable exchange rate (neighboring Singapore's treatments cost twice as much), Malaysia's wards now proffer everything from laparoscopic surgery to liposuction. And patients are flocking: the Association of Private Hospitals of Malaysia (APHM) claims that in 2002 nearly 85,000 medical tourists checked themselves in to Malaysian clinics, mostly from Indonesia and other Asian countries but also many from Europe. "We're multicultural and multilingual," says the association's Datuk Dr. Ridzwan Bakar. "And we're the most competitively priced country in the Asia-Pacific region, bar India...
...adopted a more moderate stance. But he rides into office on a surge of nationalistic self-confidence that will make him a tough sell when George W. Bush comes calling to persuade him to cut economic aid to North Korea. One day after the election, Bush called Roh to proffer his congratulations and to invite him to Washington...
...morning, the buses begin to arrive en masse, and by lunchtime the main drag has become a noisy testament to European automotive engineering. Under the Golden Triangle sign, a dozen or so children clad in gaudy hill-tribe garb jump into everyone's photographs, invited or not, then proffer palms for payment. Refusal is not brooked kindly, and even the most tightfisted succumb under the onslaught of teary eyes, wailing and shirt tugging. "Everyone can smell the tourist dollars," says Miss Pim, owner of the Arabica coffee shop, as she bustles around fixing espressos and cappuccinos. "Once people start making...
...votes, is also suing for a recount of the hand count in Palm Beach. If Gore's witness for his case in Miami-Dade turns out to be credible, he'll have done some work for Bush in Palm Beach. Beck even got in some hacking at Brace's "proffer" to the Florida Supremes, just to salt the furrows a little...