I was too unhappy with him not to jump at an offer which would give me back Charlie!

Nick Succorso is exactly the kind of man who'll jump at an offer like that."

More recently, Mr. Malkin, acting on behalf of Associates, jumped at an offer by Mr. Trump and the Japanese group to sell to building.

So he jumped at an offer from Mr. Cayce to introduce him to two associates of Roger Clinton, said Mr. Lincecum's lawyer, Edward W. Hayes.

In 1990, Mr. Silk jumped at an offer to be president and chief executive of the Estee Corporation in Parsippany, N.J., a maker of foods for diabetics.

But if Don Shula, now 64, were to decide to stop coaching the Miami Dolphins, Johnson would jump at an offer to return to the area where he guided the University of Miami to two national college titles.

Keith Williams, 47, said that he jumped at an offer last year to be executive chef at the chic restaurant BG at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan, but that job discussions in the past had been less pleasant.

She felt bored, so two years later, despite being pregnant with her second daughter, Emma, she jumped at an offer to help shake up some of the compensation systems at AlliedSignal, the corporate name before Allied and Honeywell merged in 1999.

He says he felt that he had gone as far as he could as a consultant at the New York information technology business Kraft, Kennedy & Lesser, so in spring 2000, he jumped at an offer from an Internet start-up called Hostcentric for a job with the fancy-sounding title of vice president for provisioning.