Word: offers
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...starry offer was made by Space Travel Services Corp., a company formed by three Houston space enthusiasts who hope to serve as travel agents for intrepid souls who want to go out of this world. Soviet officials confirmed that a letter of intent to take on an American passenger has been signed with an intermediary for the Texas firm...
Would-be cosmonauts have plenty of time to ponder the far-out trip: the % drawing is set for next December, and the flight may not occur until 1993. Texas officials, however, have begun an investigation to determine whether the conditions of the offer amounted to a lottery rather than a sweepstakes. If so, it would violate state law and presumably be canceled long before the countdown begins...
...crisis was touched off two weeks ago when Michael Williams, a mid-level Education official in charge of civil rights, announced a startling reinterpretation of existing federal anti-discrimination laws. College scholarships exclusively earmarked for minority students are illegal, he declared, and institutions that offer them may face a cutoff of federal funds. Colleges and universities around the country immediately set off alarm bells and sent the Administration scrambling to clarify a policy that Williams had apparently enunciated without consulting the White House...
...government expects 200 to 300 drug lords to take advantage of Gaviria's offer before Dec. 25. U.S. officials were less than jubilant. Under the terms of the decree, drug dealers are immune from extradition to the U.S. and not required to confess all their crimes. Depending on the Colombian courts, Ochoa could wind up serving less than 20 months in jail and possibly even go free...
...policy decision arose almost by accident, after reports that organizers of Arizona's Fiesta Bowl planned to contribute $100,000 to each of the two colleges fielding teams for the football game. The money would be designated for minority scholarships. Bowl officials hoped the offer would neutralize criticism of Arizona's refusal to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a state holiday, which had led to a call for colleges to boycott the game. But in a Dec. 4 letter, Michael Williams, Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights, advised Fiesta organizers that such "race exclusive" scholarships were probably...