Word: sweetening
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...from accepting the deal offered him at Camp David has hardened considerably following 10 weeks of violence in which more than 300, mostly Palestinian, lives have been lost. And with the hawkish Benjamin Netanyahu enjoying a double-digit lead in opinion polls, Prime Minister Ehud Barak is unlikely to sweeten his offer. Netanyahu moved a step closer to overcoming legal obstacles to his candidacy Wednesday when Israel's parliament voted to allow any citizen to contest the special election triggered by Barak's resignation. The bill must pass two more votes to become law, and replace the current statute that...
...ultra-Orthodox Shas party has promised him its temporary support. But it was Shas's defection from his governing coalition last spring that had precipitated Barak's decline, and any respite offered by the religious party is likely to be temporary. And that leaves Barak forced to either sweeten the unity deal for Sharon by giving him effective veto over any peace initiatives, or else face new elections that pollsters right now predict he'll almost certainly lose...
...everybody likes the idea of someone else cashing in on their free computing cycles. "If somebody's making a dollar off my machine," notes David McNett, president of Distributed.net "I'd damn well want to be compensated for it." To sweeten the deal, many community computing start-ups let participants donate a portion of their computational cycles to pet biomedical charities. People who sign up with the San Diego-based firm Entropia, for instance, can allot part of their computer's time to the FightAIDS@home project, which uses distributed computing to help Arthur Olson's lab at the Scripps...
...sports book at Caesars Palace that Northwestern would lose that night by at least 251/2 points. When Pendergast phoned Lee in Ann Arbor and conveyed that number, Lee was reluctant to go ahead because "the spread was too high." But Pendergast, according to court papers, was insistent, and to sweeten the deal offered to double Lee's take to $8,000. Only then did Lee agree...
...proves these women's ability to cut deep that they've been called both "evil, emasculating harpies" (USA Today) and male fantasies. Sex is fantasy, but not that kind. The high-powered Sexettes can afford Manolo Blahnik shoes, Le Bernardin dinners and swank Manhattan apartments. Their charmed circumstances would sweeten the solo life for a man or a woman...