Word: offers
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Bush will reaffirm U.S. commitments to a consensual approach to fighting the drug lords. He will applaud Colombia's six-month-old crackdown against the drug barons. He will offer reassurances that except for the soldiers stationed at the U.S. Southern Command in Panama, there will be no American troops left in the region after the U.S. completes the withdrawal of its invasion force from Panama, perhaps by the end of this month. Bush hopes that once those assurances are given, Barco will agree to the deployment of the antismuggling naval task force and the installation of a U.S.-built...
...million in fees alone, partly because its opponents were bumbling latecomers to the world of leveraged buy- outs. Johnson's Wall Street advisers, who included the giant firms Shearson Lehman Hutton and Salomon Brothers, sometimes carried on like the Keystone Kops. At one point, lawyers carrying a Johnson offer became stuck in Manhattan traffic moments before the bid was due. In desperation, they leaped from their cab and raced the remaining two blocks on foot, arriving breathless and embarrassingly late. Said a disgusted RJR director: "This is the gang that couldn't shoot straight...
Fearful that voters may eventually demand an end to the shell game, Senators and Congressmen from both sides of the aisle are racing to offer alternatives to Moynihan's proposal. Some of the trial balloons...
...seemingly insatiable appetite for polls arises because they satisfy so many editorial needs. In times of uncertainty they offer apparent objectivity and precision. On otherwise slow news days they track the excitement of public opinion on the march. ("Watch out! Here comes 'Big Mo.' ") They promise a window into private thoughts without the inconvenience of intimacy. And, in a world of ten-second sound bites and shrinking news stories, poll-derived graphics can be wonderfully concise...
Viljoen argues that it is now time for the A.N.C. to stop talking about continuing armed struggle and offer some conciliatory gesture. "It is only fair," he says, "that in answer to the considerable strides the State President has taken, some steps should be taken on the other side to narrow the gap." Viljoen expects that Mandela will be not just a facilitator of talks but a central figure in negotiating a new South African constitution. "His stature and qualities are quite clear to anybody who has ever talked with him," said Viljoen. At the same time, he said...