Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...plans to offer even more financial services. Says Nancy Barry, who will become the next president in September: "In the past ten years we have focused on access to credit. In the next ten years we will be helping women to find investors, to help them get more training and to develop larger markets." Not bad for a bunch of women who used to find themselves laughed out of the bank...
...republics since 1953. So when South Korea's Hyundai Construction Co. announced that it was making a donation to North Korea, the nature of the benevolence raised some eyebrows: a bulldozer, an excavator, a forklift, a loader and a dump truck. The North Koreans passed on the offer...
Many foreign policy experts are convinced that Moscow will negotiate furiously for economic and security assurances before approving unification. Germany can offer technology, loans and credits that would give a crucial boost to the disintegrating Soviet economy. For its part, Bonn is quick to deny it is trying to appease Soviet military fears with purely economic payoffs. Instead officials talk of weaving a web of mutual understanding, where both sides would benefit economically and politically. Though Washington would welcome any arrangement that makes the Kremlin more amenable, it is also likely to have misgivings about the possibility of a burgeoning...
...they do. Words hurt. Juries cannot alleviate pain, but they can, for vengeance's sake, exact a pound of flesh. Their motivation for doing so is reinforced by the perceived indifference of the press to individuals' rights and sensibilities. Though many newspapers have established corrections policies, few offer the aggrieved a hearing before an impartial arbiter. No arbitration process will stave off all lawsuits, of course. But until more news organizations create other remedies for the aggrieved, they and their attorneys will constantly be in court, hoping for a sympathetic hearing from judges and juries who are far from convinced...
With Gorbachev leading the assault, Yeltsin was savaged at that meeting and at a later session of the Moscow party committee. In his book Against the Grain, Yeltsin reports that Gorbachev phoned later to offer him the deputy chairmanship of the State Construction Committee, which he accepted. Gorbachev then told him he would permanently be barred from politics. Writes Yeltsin: "It did not occur to him that he had created and put in motion a set of democratic processes under which his word as General Secretary ceased to be the word of a dictator...