Word: offering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nasser himself greeted the Sudanese and put them up at Tahra Palace. From then on, it was merely a matter of the routine haggling that each side expected of the other. Nasser stepped in personally to raise Egypt's compensation offer to $43 million, and the Sudanese were happy to accept after getting a greatly increased share (18.5 billion cubic meters v. 4 billion in the 1929 pact) of the increased water supply to be accumulated when Egypt's Aswan High Dam holds back the vast amount of wasted water that normally goes down into the Mediterranean every...
...such a jolly occasion, he obviously meant his own disarmament proposals, and was not calling up the evil days of 1937-38, when the officer corps was decimated by purges. In the chandeliered glitter of the Kremlin's St. George Hall, Toastmaster Khrushchev went on to offer five more toasts on the 42nd anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, all of them in what Pravda called "the spirit of Camp David." Earlier, there had been the shortest (seven minutes) military parade through Red Square in all the 42 years, with nothing to show in new weapons, but including an unprecedented...
...Prime Minister's first bold move was a 16-day amnesty offer to Triad hoodlums who wanted to go straight. If they would confess past misdeeds, their testimony would not be used against them as evidence; the police would make every effort to protect them from predictable Triad reprisals; most important of all, they would not be subject to the sweeping new powers that Lee's government was giving the police, which in effect deprive all known criminals of habeas corpus. Confessions from suspicious crooks were few at first, but under constant radio and press warnings to "give...
Hoping to keep up with the hot spirit of independence that is racing through the Congo like fire in dry bush, Belgium is holding elections there in December to offer a modicum of local self-rule, as a forerunner of a promised national government by Africans in 1964. But Congolese Africans, in a land 99% black, are impatiently several jumps ahead of the process...
What public relations operators on the edges of the newspaper business generally may not know is that in New York State it is a crime to offer or pay a bribe to a newsman, or for that matter, to any other sort of private-enterprise employee (including radio and TV workers). Last week in Manhattan, a pressagent named Robin ("Curly") Harris found out the hard way about the New York...