Word: offers
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WHEN the real-life Mr. Hooper from Sesame Street died, millions tuned in to PBS to see how the show would deal with the loss. Parents knew that Big Bird would somehow be able to offer children more reassurance and security in the face of death than any spiritual advisor, developmental psychiatrist or cartoon character...
...enough of this sappy stuff. Jim Henson was a fun guy and the most loveable creator on television. His death doesn't mean the end of Sesame Street. The muppets offer universal and timeless lessons--even for our ivory tower of esoteric knowledge...
...which a private eye and a retired football player team up to solve a murder. Black wrote the script "on spec," meaning on a speculative basis with no studio commission, a status that entitled him to shop it around for the highest price. The bidding started with an offer of $850,000 from 20th Century Fox and escalated until Carolco Pictures reached a top bid of $2.25 million. But the screenwriter went with the lower bid by Geffen because he agreed to hire producer Joel Silver, who handled Lethal Weapon...
Leading the congressional probe is Representative Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, who last week called diet-industry executives before his House Small Business Subcommittee and asked them to explain their hard-sell tactics. Wyden's staff raised several concerns about specific companies. For example, the Diet Center programs, which offer special foods and pills, claim to provide guidance by "weight-loss professionals." Customers may presume that these professionals are nutritionists, says Wyden, but they are "basically salespersons." Ads for the Physicians Weight Loss Centers imply that a doctor will supervise each patient's diet, but frequently the lone staff physician...
...only proposal I can offer is not original. I heard it first proposed in the movie Batman. Beholding the filth and depravity of Gotham City, the Joker exclaimed "This town needs an enema!" I think that if the Joker had been with me at the formal the other night, he would have agreed with me, that an enema--a big one--is just what this college needs...