Word: bottomed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time when the entire industry is struggling. While more titles are being published (68,000 in 1996), hardcover sales of adult trade books slipped nearly 7% from 1996 to 1997, and overall sales dropped 3.4%. Under corporate ownership, the cultural appeal of books began to give way increasingly to bottom-line considerations. Media czars, expecting books to yield the same 15%-to-20% profits as their other content businesses, have become impatient with their publishers' balance sheets, which seldom return more than...
...largest non-American players in the American media scene. In addition to BDD, its U.S. holdings include music labels such as RCA and Arista and magazines such as McCall's. The company plans to raise not only its U.S. profile but its revenue too, from a third of its bottom line to 40%. "The U.S. is a very big market," says Middelhoff. "Our position is O.K., but our properties must strengthen our position...
After tomorrow's doubleheader against Princeton, Harvard moves on to Ithaca, N.Y. to take on Cornell in another two-game set. The Big Red, which finished near the bottom of the Ivies last season, going 7-13 in the league and 13-26 overall, look to avoid another season sweep at the hands of the Crimson. Cornell is clearly not a premier team, but Harvard's players understand that there is no such thing as a sure...
...Bottom of the class: Lycos, which is barely scratching the surface with coverage of about nine million web pages. Best browser award goes to HotBot, which has managed to catalog a third of the web, or around 100 million pages. But as Lawrence and Giles say, none of the engines match up to the searching power you get by using any two or three of them in conjunction. With the Internet set to hit a staggering 3 billion pages by the next century, it?s only going to become more true: If you want to become a better surfer...
...never try to limit people who are committed to work," she said. "The Crimson's efforts to diversify are at rock bottom inclusive in nature...