Word: tenderer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mention of conflict of interest strikes a tender chord with other University vice presidents. "Steve Hall is in charge," Champion said. "He makes recommendations to the Corporation and the Corporation will decide policy. Particularly because I am a renter, I am glad to stay...
...apiary in Mayhew, Miss., that he labeled "the queen bee of all recipients in 1972, waxing the taxpayers for $457,000." A spokesman for the apiary admitted that it is hard to tell just how bees die, adding, "The least little thing kills them." But Congressmen have tender hearts. Despite Conte's complaints, the program has been extended another four years...
...body against its dark background is a trifle obvious as a metaphor of hills and undulant landscape. But in the best of these pictures, like The Sauna, 1968, and Indian Summer, 1970, laconic composition and reflective grasp of structure place this sturdy, blunt frame before us with a tender but remote specificity. Fact as poetry is becoming Wyeth's strength. · Robert Hughes
...takeover would have on Texasgulf. C.D.C.'s president, H. Anthony Hampson, the former head of a large Canadian mutual-fund management company, says only that C.D.C. will seek an "appropriate degree" of representation on Texasgulf's board. Fighting back, Texasgulf filed suit in Houston to block the tender offer; a federal judge issued an order restraining the offer until Aug. 6, when a hearing is set on the company's motion for an injunction...
...contrast, Skelton's father is literally a basket case, who seldom stirs from a canopy festooned with mosquito netting. But hearing of Dance's threat, he lurches into unaccustomed activity. Perhaps the book's best scene is a tender confrontation between father and son, the father knowing the son's moral course the way the guides know the bonefishing tides, and being equally helpless to shift...