Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...paper's fate depends on two unpredictable factors. One is whether early issues are lively and error-free; hard-core fans are notoriously unforgiving. The other is whether enough people really want all that coverage every day from all those fancy columnists and feature writers. Onlookers offer scenarios aplenty but admit that the National is hard to assess because it is unprecedented -- one might say, a whole new ball game...
...priest, he is a passionate acolyte to the projectionist, who is quite literally the keeper of a flame (the arc lamps inside his machine), the cranky guardian of a mystery more awesome -- or at least more attractive -- to the child than anything the church has to offer...
...funds, the Japanese rate increase proved to be contagious. Rates on ten-year Treasury bonds have climbed from 7.84% to 8.4% during the past month. Money-market speculators sent rates higher because they know that the Japanese, who typically buy as much as 40% of U.S. long-term bond offerings, will be disinclined to invest in U.S. Treasury securities unless American bonds offer significantly higher yields than equivalent Japanese or West German paper...
...that respect, Sununu is a useful "bad cop" to Bush's "good cop." The President emphasized to TIME that he will renew his offer of cooperation with Congress this week in his first State of the Union address. But he warned half-jokingly, as he rolled his eyes in the direction of a smiling Sununu, "You've got some ((people)) sitting around here that aren't quite as kind and gentle." Never a patient sort, Sununu has grown exasperated with Congress's failure to act on the Administration's agenda and has persuaded Bush to depict the Democrats...
Perhaps the only realistic outcome at this time is a transitional one, to what one deeply involved Western diplomat calls a "zebra-striped government." Says he: "Power sharing with a real share for the blacks is definitely on offer in the next phase. A surrender of white power is not." But, he adds, once that first hurdle is surmounted, South Africa will be poised for the final jump. "The next constitution," says this diplomat, "will not be the ultimate constitution...