He didn't dare wait until the monkey results were in since AstraZeneca might swoop in and outbid him, so he offered to buy Centaur's assets for a 30% stake in the privately held Renovis if the monkey trials worked.
So when he offered to bail out the U.S. bond insurance industry on Tuesday, it seemed a good bet that he was proposing a better deal for Berkshire Hathaway than for the troubled firms that might need his help.
So far, he has not offered even an outline of how he intends to do so.
He resigned abruptly in December, telling staff that News International wanted to appoint a new editor, so he'd offered his resignation to Rupert Murdoch.
After the Mass, he was swarmed by the faithful, so Father Pino offered the church leader a stool to stand on so he could see and greet everyone more easily.
After the Mass, he was swarmed by the faithful, so Father Pino offered the church leader a stool to stand on so he could greet everyone and not get pushed over.
So, when he was offered a massive chunk of cash to personally transport a few dozen pounds of liquid cocaine via commercial airliner, he leapt at the chance.
He still thought that dealing with lesser credit risks--so-called subprime lending--offered more potential upside, provided he could do a better job of screening applicants and keeping losses low.
He wanted to make sure his workers kept up a comprehensive knowledge base, so when the Japanese offered to sell him integrated circuits at half price, he refused.
Mr. Gingrich hasn't released his tax returns either, but a campaign spokesman said "he has offered" to do so.
Thornburg expects to be offered lots of crappy stuff, so he'll be picky.
So the worker was not offered the position "because he wouldn't be loyal".
For four years, Mourinho studied maniacally, and impressed the coaching staff so much that when Robson moved back to Newcastle, he offered Mourinho the assistant coaching position.
After completing an apprenticeship as a boiler-maker in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, he found no work at home, so he moved to Johannesburg last October, and was immediately offered three jobs.
One reason the elder Bush offered so few dramatic changes 12 years ago was that he was mostly making a case for continuity--for maintaining the direction of the outgoing Reagan administration.
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He offered the perfect vehicle because he and his story are so exceptional.
And Leader Byrd offered up -- he was then the whip -- he offered his office to me to come down from Delaware so I could have a place to interview staff members.
He said they will be offered the personalised help they need to do so.
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For someone who has made so much of his southern, son-of-a-mill-worker roots, he offered an oddly bland speech, with only one reference to growing up in the Carolinas and none to Columbus's plight.
He intercepted Hopwood at a conference in Los Angelesand impressed him so much in ten minutes that Hopwood offered him a job on the spot.
The first time he offered his resignation you said it would be a great loss to the industry, and so on.
He drew a contrast between the discounts that Microsoft offered its corporate customers and its refusal to do so for average consumers.
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