Word: acclaimed
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...front costs to a publisher of textbooks are huge compared to a publisher of novels," says Mankiw, who received a $1.4 million advance for the textbook that has won critical acclaim. He cites features such as colorful graphics, reprints of copyrighted material like cartoons, supplementary material, like instructor's manuals, and length as factors that account for the higher price...
Last night more than 90 people attended a screening of Ermo, a satire about a peasant woman obsessed with owning the largest television set in her village. The film won Zhou international acclaim...
Zhou graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1985 and has since won critical acclaim on the international film circuit for his directing ability. His visit to Harvard will offer China scholars a rare opportunity to discuss these important films with the director, according to the tribute's sponsors...
That said, shoe-size supercomputers were the only data-crunching gadgets I did not see at Comdex last week. Plenty of ultrathin, superlight laptops were on exhibit though--the industry's response to the critical acclaim that met Sony's launch of the under-3-lb. Vaio earlier this year. While Sony has just introduced an even newer model, the Vaio 505FX, people looking for a great on-the-road machine should check out Toshiba's Portege 3010CT. The Portege weighs 2.9 lbs. and still packs a 10.4-in. active-matrix color screen, a 4.3-gigabyte hard disk...
...book, Iron John, a literary exploration of masculinity, garnered critical acclaim and topped The New York Times bestseller list. Bly has since been widely credited with spearheading the men's movement...