1.   Thus if B orders goods on its terms and S responds by acknowledging the order on its own, different terms, S has made a counter offer.

2.   The effect of such a provision is to prevent any conduct of the business being construed as acceptance of any counter offer coming from the other party.

3.   However, if the seller responds with an acknowledgment of the order, referring to its own terms, the seller makes a counter offer.

4.   As the offers and counter offers escalate, Mills is torn.

5.   Blake turned that down but never made a counter offer.

6.   A counter offer by the management group is a possibility, he said.

7.   He declined to say what kind of counter offer was made.

8.   Hicks Muse is likely to make a counter offer, analysts said.

9.   Hunsicker resisted and made a counter offer.

10.   Labor negotiators, who did not reveal any counter offers they made to Boeing, nontheless acknowledged the two sides are still very far apart.