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The state's power providers made a counter-offer of $700 million.
Shares rose by 10.5p as speculation mounted of a counter-offer.
1 an offer that is made by one side in a disagreement after the other side has made an offer that is not acceptable: --
2 a situation in which a company or organization offers an employee more money or a better job in order, for example, to try to prevent them moving to another company or organization where they have been offered a job: --
It is on the basis of these nuclear arsenals that the disarmament offers and counter-offers have been made in recent months.
Owing to the lack of common rules on tax policy issues, tax competition with its offers and counter-offers of low tax rates creates problems.
Missives are letters the body of which contain proposed sale contracts and that negotiate terms, one missive at a time, essentially as an offer and counter-offer.
This cycle of proposition and counter-offer, mediated by the chair, can take a while.
We have had no counter-offer.
The employers put in a counter-offer.
If we insist on ballots, we can go on extending a dispute while offer and counter-offer are made.
Anybody who knows anything about these negotiations realises that in whatever terms that counter-offer was couched, it did not amount to a walk-out.
