Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wheeler is currently writing a book on Portugal during World...
Dukakis is supposed to unveil a new package of ethics policies as soon as he finds a replacement for former Chair of the Ethics Commission Colin Diver. The package is expected to include an ethics hand-book, tighter restrictions on college trust funds and codes of conduct for all state agencies, The Boston Globe reported Sunday...
Rushdie, 41, apologized Saturday for any distress the publication of his book caused to Moslems, after Iranian President Ali Khamanei indicated that could lead to a pardon...
Extraordinary in its simplicity, the book's plot recounts the author's lunch hour, as he muses on the escalator back to work. Although a routine lunch hour, Baker has a lot to think about on his way to the mezzanine where his office is located. How he breaks two shoelaces in two days, goes to lunch, buys new shoelaces and stops to read the Penguin Classic edition of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations...
...bought this kind of book? I wondered. People like me, sporadic self-improvers, on lunch hours? Or only students? Or cabbies, wanting something to surprise their fares with, a book to wave in front of the Plexiglass? I had often wondered whether Penguin made money selling these paperbacks...