He was fortunate among his classmates to get an offer from a major Wall Street firm.
When you get an offer, resist the urge to yell, "I'll take it!"
Sean Reilly, of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, said last month that some residents would get an offer of money to relocate: a carrot, as well as a stick.
In fact it has become the standard in the United States for faculty if they do want to have a raise simply to get an offer from another university and then go back to their own university and ask them to meet that offer.
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"You have to go through all these unnecessary steps to get to an offer, " Chahal says.
Get a call with an offer for briefing?
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That is because in the current environment, when markets allow buyers to provide a reasonable multiple, get financing, offer an attractive premium and clear the deal with shareholders, the initial bid is likely to be fully valued.
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Indeed, you have to wonder if the modest rally in the stocks today might offer an opportunity to get out of the stock.
When it comes to endorsement deals, these days, there is no shortage of companies trying to get through the door to make Watson an offer.
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It will take an offer of decent money to get any of our players to move.
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But it can be a great deal for investors, too, if they get in on the discounted sub before the parent makes an offer.
After accepting an offer, but before day one, get a pulse on the corporate culture of the organization by taking a BRAVE approach: examine its behaviors, relationships, attitudes, values and environment.
Citi obviously made an offer attractive enough for Mr. Lew to get over the fact that he didn't care about consumer credit markets.
Baroness Lane-Fox said she hoped the local Gransnet service, which will contain information about events, classes, volunteering opportunities and other activities relevant to specific areas, would offer an incentive for more older people to get online.
Sellers, especially dealers, often offer to help get license plates and meet a buyer at an airport.
Indicate in an e-mail they hope you can get together soon, but offer nothing more specific than that.
Keeping companies posted will not only keep you fresh in their mind, but it will also allow them to get the ball moving if they do in fact want to make you an offer.
We believe decelerating efforts to offer enterprises the ability to get their fast secure Blackberry email on an iPhone or an Android device is a mistake.
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But in an employer based retirement plan system, the only way to get employers to offer those nudges is to provide them with a compelling financial reason to do so.
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For if car companies now must offer you guaranteed access to other vehicles to get you to buy an all-electric one, it raises the question: Why do you need an electric vehicle in the first place?
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Truthfully, the writing was on the wall -- after all, we've seen Verizon hit unexpected shortages on HD STBs, run completely out of Sharp AQUOS LCDs for its signup offer and create 335 new job openings in an attempt to get a handle on FiOS growth.
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It would merely require an open tender offer to existing shareholders at a price attractive enough to get majority ownership of all voting shares.
Make sure you are able to offer clients an alternative in terms of where they can go to get a more appropriate level of service.
If this were an opportunity for private investors to get wedged in, to get a more advantageous offer, sort of, after the supposed end of the auction, you could see people who wanted to take it over and perhaps sell the company off for parts.
The display on offer has an average 1366 x 768 resolution, but the larger screen real estate means users get a full size keyboard.
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"While we will continue to investigate this matter internally, we are hopeful that this will put an end to the matter and allow everyone to get back to enjoying all that our great city has to offer!"
"I don't like to get into an us-versus-them situation, but the drought in these other locations is going to get worse and worse and what we have to offer is going to get more and more attractive, " said David Ullrich, executive director of an organization representing the Great Lakes region's mayors.
More than 35, 000 passengers a day get on a bus and then realise they don't have enough on their Oyster card so this will offer an alternative.
When we announced that everybody who pre-orders Battlefield 3 would get an entire future expansion pack at no extra charge, I knew we had created a very generous pre-order offer.
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