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...corporate elite. For many other top financial journalists, six-figure book advances have become the rule. Publishers pay handsomely for such potential blockbusters as author Ken Auletta's probe of the television industry, which brought him at least $500,000 and is due on shelves next summer. Connie Bruck, a New Yorker writer, reportedly signed a $400,000 contract for a profile of Time Warner chairman Steven Ross. Other high-priced works in progress include Wall Street exposes by Anthony Bianco of Business Week and James Stewart of the Journal...
...direction during the past decade, according to many who deal with the firm. But his yen for control and lack of regard for convention, which served him so well in staking out his new financial realm, may have been what led him to allegedly illegal tactics. Says journalist Connie Bruck, author of the 1988 book on Drexel titled The Predator's Ball: "For years he's been a law unto himself. He has disdain for the way the world works. He figures he's waging a holy...
...highest civilization," wrote Emerson, "the book is still the highest delight." Well, not for Michael Milken, particularly since he is the book's subject. The controversial junk-bond financier reportedly offered to pay Writer Connie Bruck to give up work on her book about him and his investment firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert. "I do not want it to be done. Why don't we pay you for all the copies you would have sold -- if you had written it," Milken suggested to Bruck after she began working on the project in 1986, according to an extract of the manuscript obtained...
Phoebe M. Bruck, chairperson of the Harvard Square Advisory Committee which acts as a mandatory intermediary between developers and the city's planning board, said that the city solicitor has to define which zoning laws apply in this situation before the board can make a decision about the amount of parking that the developer must build...
...great Northeast drought of the early 1960s. "Drought is undoubtedly a major component of a large part of the decline," says Robert Rosenthal of the EPA. "But it doesn't explain it all. There is pretty good evidence that there are air pollution effects." Plant Pathologist Robert Bruck of North Carolina State University points out that tree growth slowed down in the early 1960s, just after extensive industrial expansion in the Ohio and Tennessee valleys. Says he: "Pollution from these industries got sent East, and the first things to intercept it were the forests at higher elevations...