Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Normally, scholars look forward to visiting professorships because they offer a chance to study elsewhere and get exposure at another school...
...TRANSLATED a wedding invitation in Dutch at the Taj Mahal's employment office while looking for a job in Atlantic City last week. The "Human Resources Manager" was grateful and impressed, but in the end, all she could offer me was a job as a bus greeter at $3.80 an hour...
...first, I was insulted by the offer, but my sorrow mellowed when hers turned out to be my best job offer of the day. After a string of rejections from all 12 casinos and most of the restaurants in the area, I began to doubt the value of my Ivy League education...
...spiral skyward. During the 1970s, the average cost of attending a private college more than doubled--not surprising given the inflationary tenor of the times. But between 1980 and 1988, the average cost more than doubled again. And unlike Harvard, most colleges make no pretense of being able to offer an education to students of every economic standing...
Independent since 1967, the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen has spent the past 20 years in the Soviet orbit. The withdrawal of Soviet aid, plus the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, led South Yemen to accept an offer to unite with the Yemen Arab Republic, its northern neighbor...