Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ethics committee at last released its report on Speaker Jim Wright, the findings of the ten-month investigation still qualified as a bombshell. Bad enough were the accumulated allegations of venality: details of Betty Wright's alleged no-show job, accounts of the Speaker's staff shamelessly peddling his book, the description of a wildly lucrative -- and suspicious -- oil-well deal that few had known about before. More important, and more ominous for Wright, was the fact that all six Democrats on the committee joined the six Republicans in finding "reason to believe" that the Speaker had violated House ethics...
...bulk sales of his nonbook Reflections of a Public Man (it consists mainly of speech excerpts slapped together by an aide). On the surface, at least, the sales look like a blatant attempt to slide around House limits on members' outside income; honorariums for speeches are restricted, but book royalties are not. In several cases Wright's staff members pointed out that the Speaker was near his limit on honorariums and suggested that organizations buy books instead of paying him directly. Wright refused to answer any questions about the book last week; if he or Oldaker has a plausible explanation...
...That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit," wrote American educator Bronson Alcott. Whittle Communications couldn't agree more. The Knoxville-based company plans to publish a series of books that will contain a radically new profit-making device: advertising. While paperbacks have sometimes been sprinkled with ads, such come-ons have almost never appeared between hard covers...
...books, constituting a series called The Larger Agenda, will be business- oriented analyses of 100 or so pages, written by such authors as David Halberstam, John Kenneth Galbraith and George Gilder for fees of about $60,000. Each book will be initially distributed free to some 150,000 opinion leaders, including executives and politicians, and later sold in bookstores. The advertising income will finance the giveaways and help keep the retail price of the books relatively low, while still ensuring a healthy profit margin for Whittle, which is 50% owned by the Time Inc. Magazine Co., the publisher of TIME...
TRIPMASTER MONKEY: HIS FAKE BOOK by Maxine Hong Kingston...