Word: offers
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Although such scenarios are currentlyfar-fetched and unlikely, the Corporation coulduse any number of techniques to override an FASban on ROTC. The governing body, for instance,could offer ROTC programs through another faculty,or could even create an entirely new faculty toaccomodate military training...
...weeks ago, Barry's friend and political ally Jesse Jackson began publicly urging a compromise, in which all but a minor charge against Barry would be dropped in exchange for his resignation. But Stephens has not accepted the offer, perhaps out of concern that such a deal would lend credence to Barry's claim that the case was a racially motivated effort to "politically lynch" a prominent black official. Stephens reportedly continues to insist that Barry plead guilty to at least one felony count, which would probably mean some time in jail...
...Roseburg, a spotted owl hangs in effigy over the bar. Shops offer T shirts saying I LOVE SPOTTED OWLS . . . FRIED. And in the cabin of logger Bill Haire's truck, beneath the mirror, swings a tiny owl with an arrow through its head. "I can still maintain some sense of humor," says Haire. His father Tom, 65, works with him in the forest, and his son Brian, 12, hopes one day to join them there. "If it comes down to my family or that bird," says Haire, "that bird's going to suffer. Where would we be right...
Apart from the well-trod tourist trail around the bloc, which leads to such places as the Ghetto Memorial in Warsaw, the Old Town Square in Prague and the neo-Gothic parliament building on the banks of the Danube in Budapest, the cities have some surprising things to offer. Even the region's grim industrial agglomerations are worth seeing, if only to judge for yourself how badly communism failed...
...many vital issues are competing for Gorbachev's attention that he has decided he needs technical assistance from an unlikely source: the White House. A six-member Soviet delegation toured the premises last week, and John Sununu, the markedly conservative chief of staff, will go to Moscow to offer pointers on the best way to organize a presidential branch of government. The Soviets, Sununu observes, are now encountering not only the benefits of reform but "all the things that make democratic political systems so . . . ((pained smile)) . . . interesting...