Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real estate in California is cheaper and more appealing to companies than land is in most Rocky Mountain states. Joel Kotkin, author of California, Inc. and a professional optimist of sorts, reports in the L.A. Times that more business are entering California than leaving...
More than 60 students have e-mailed their opposition to randomization in a letter posted to the harvard.general newsgroup last month, according to Benjamin H. Torrance '95, the author of the petition...
...Buruma, the journalist and author, has written several books about Asia...
Hagstrom is a Philadelphia investment adviser and longtime fan of Buffett's. While other Buffett buffs were waiting for their hero to write a book that explains how he does it, Hagstrom came out of nowhere as a replacement author. The publication last November of his book, The Warren Buffett Way, helped spark a sudden rise in the stock price of Berkshire Hathaway from $16,000 to a record $25,000 a share (this is no penny stock). Since Buffett owns 42% of Berkshire Hathaway, Hagstrom's effort made Buffett $2 billion richer, at least temporarily. This is the biggest...
...publisher did. The book's authentic popularity has been boosted by an aggressive publicity campaign. Random House sent Berendt on an unusually extensive 38-city media tour and several times has sent him to Savannah to shepherd reporters on a personalized author's tour. Cathie Matthews, a real-estate broker from Little Rock, Arkansas, saw the promotional ingenuity up close. When she bought the 400,000th copy of the book in December, inside she found a hand-written note from Berendt, telling her to call Random House for a free trip to Savannah. She paid her visit last week. Berendt...