"I think I'd consider such an offer were it to be made, " Nelson told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday.

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We came to that meeting at the request of Brookfield with the understanding that they were prepared to consider an increase in the offer.

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Or, consider this gem: In an offer in compromise, a taxpayer asks the Internal Revenue Service to settle for less than he owes, on the grounds that he can't pay it all and is coming up with cash that the IRS wouldn't get otherwise--say from his relatives or retirement account.

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Some immigrants are holding off because Congress has begun to consider an immigration overhaul that could offer legal permanent status to most of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. The DACA program doesn't offer a green card or a path to citizenship, and participants must reapply every two years.

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If you are really going to spend thousands of dollars on art, consider hiring an expert on that artist to offer their opinion.

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But the trust may consider "terminating existing contracts" with an immediate offer to re-hire people "on revised terms and conditions of employment".

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Dolle, who has compared Arcelor's steel to high-quality perfume over Mittal's lower grade eau de cologne, would like to see an all-cash offer from Mittal before he's prepared to consider the bid.

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At the time of the initial statement, there was the offer of an appearance in a farewell friendly match but Beckham did not consider it at that stage because he felt he still had an England future.

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"I would say one of the most important changes that we will consider in our business model, in the new environment, is an unbundling of the services that we currently offer and price for, " Byron Pollitt, Visa's finance chief, said in September.

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