Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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SOME people are naturally happy. Offer them an obstructed-view seat at Fenway Park and they will swoon over the architectural beauty of the left field wall. Draft them to fight in Iraq and they will come back singing the joys of desert warfare. Send them to Harvard, and they will join the Crimson Key Society...
...know whereof I speak. On my arrival in this fair city I was already a battle-scarred veteran of the War to Crush Bureacracy. I had to wade through a tide of petty officials just to get a reply card to accept the University's kind offer of admission. In the intervening years, I have been left off more lists than I care to remember...
Although Bok has pledged to pare down a short list of dean candidates to offer his successor, observers say a new Harvard president is likely to re-open a larger search for Spence's permanent replacement...
...half a dozen trial balloons floated by Iraq to Washington through back-door intermediaries. Saddam has publicly denied supporting any of these initiatives, though Bush Administration officials have confirmed that at least some of them came from Iraq's Foreign Ministry. The most recent feelers added up to an offer of withdrawal from Kuwait and release of all foreign nationals in return for several concessions: federation or some other close association between Kuwait and Iraq; guaranteed Iraqi access to the Kuwaiti islands of Bubiyan and Warbah, which block most of Iraq's scant 18 miles of Persian Gulf shoreline...
Given the emotional and economic toll, an increasing number of couples are simply choosing not to transfer. Confronted with the mounting resistance, companies are beginning to respond. Fully 75% of the 1,000 companies that belong to the Washington-based Employee Relocation Council offer services designed to make relocation more attractive to spouses, from writing basic resumes to pooling job listings with other companies to expedite a spouse's employment search...