Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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There came the initiation into the recruiting process. RPI had just decided to offer athletic scholarships, and Tomassoni was the man selected to hand them...
Cooperative members said that they hope they can also offer a place where homeless can receive mail, make and receive phone calls and listen to live music...
...world does offer examples of prosperous states with no important resources other than skilled workers; Hong Kong is one. Says Algimantas Cekuolis, a People's Deputy from Lithuania: "We are the mirror image of South Korea and Singapore 30 years ago." But Lithuania depends on the rest of the Soviet Union for 90% of its raw materials and energy, which cost far more than the food and household products it turns out. Today Vilnius pays the equivalent of $6 per bbl. for oil delivered from Siberia; at world prices it would cost four times that. Lithuania is also a victim...
Last week Sotheby's did not quite remove one hat, but it grudgingly hung its head. CEO Michael Ainslie announced that, in view of widespread criticism of the practice, the auction house will no longer offer loans using the work of art as collateral. Sotheby's will, however, continue to make other, secured loans. It will also continue "guaranteeing" minimum prices to sellers, a practice that many dealers and collectors charge makes the auction house in effect an interim buyer and compromises its standing as a disinterested agent...
...million. "Whatever the arrangement, it helped to raise the inflationary value of that particular picture," asserts Christopher Burge, president of Sotheby's starchy rival, Christie's. Like most auction houses, Christie's helps buyers find financing from banks but will not lend money itself; nor does it offer guarantees to sellers...