Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...claim." Two days after Christmas, Fossey was hacked to death in her bed. Suspects ranged from vengeful poachers to an American researcher who had proclaimed his innocence and fled the country before a Rwandan court found him guilty in absentia. The judgment is questionable. Harold Hayes does not offer conclusive evidence about who committed the crime. It is enough that he has given us a picture of Fossey that is more complex than the ones offered in the film version of Gorillas in the Mist and in Farley Mowat's Woman in the Mists (1987). Hayes, former editor of Esquire...
...anger and fear, and says, "Killing the collaborators will cut the fingers of the Shin Bet." Yazeed has spent seven years in Israeli jails for his work in what he calls the "armed struggle against the Zionist occupation." He refuses to marry: "Why should I? I have nothing to offer my children." Besides, he expects to be a martyr...
...more the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. has grown in recent decades, the more crippling has become its shortage of priests. In 1966 the American Catholic population was 46 million. At that time, the number of priests available to offer the sacraments was some 59,000, or approximately one priest for every 780 parishioners. Today there are 57 million Catholics and 53,000 priests, or one priest for every 1,100 parishioners. One result is that more than 1,000 parishes now have no priest at all. Last week two sociologists published research predicting that the crisis will only...
...consumer caution bad for the U.S. economy? In the long run, a renewed emphasis on savings, and a preference for products that work over those that impress can only be healthy. If U.S. manufacturers and service firms find that they must offer greater value to win customers at home, they will be learning lessons that should improve their chances of doing business abroad. Frenetic consumers who spent much of the decade trying to have it all and wondering how to deal with the resulting stress may find unexpected serenity in their backyards. A touch of the tightwad is a much...
...after news of the Adidas offer broke, the Paris stock exchange halted trading in his company's shares as doubts spread that Tapie could muster the backing from French banks to finance the takeover. At the time he was aboard his 90-ft. yacht in the Mediterranean, but his company put out a statement saying "the total price" he would have to pay for Adidas "will make all those who doubt our financial ability look ridiculous." Some reports put the figure at $450 million. Tapie's bid for Adidas could also benefit from the French government's unofficial blessing. With...