Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...portable computer, the Osborne 1, packaged it with three popular programs, and sold the machine for an unusually low $1,795. Last year Osborne Computer rang up sales of about $70 million. But the firm could not maintain its success. In the past week it filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. While Osborne had virtually no income, it owed suppliers $45 million...
This political bias is partly inherent in the book's structure. It begins and ends in 1981 when Polish farmers attempt to organize a union. The fictional organizers meet with stiff opposition from Polish communist leaders and more obliquely from Soviet officials. Sandwiched between these opening and closing chapters are flashbacks to earlier Polish history. The reader is supposed to reach the concluding chapter with an even greater sympathy for the David of the situation, but Michener forces the sentiment...
...Georges Simenon's two lifelong compulsions, writing and sex, only the former lends itself to anything like accurate documentation. The author's capacity to produce a novel in a burst of a week or two, usually typing a chapter a day at a rate of 92 words a minute, has yielded an astonishing output of approximately 420 volumes during half a century. Some 200 of these were early potboilers under a variety of pseudonyms; the rest are mostly spare, dark psychological thrillers, 84 of them chronicling the cases of that indelible fictional detective, Inspector Maigret...
...Standards subcommittee will convene hearings to evaluate the performance of federal agencies in enforcing current laws. In announcing the hearings, the subcommittee chairman, California Democrat George Miller, said, "The Constitution made slavery illegal over 100 years ago. It's time that the Federal Government finally writes the final chapter on this sorry scene...
...chapter in the firm's relationship with Harvard may have ended when Burr resigned from the Corporation and was replaced by Colman M. Mockler Jr. '52, the chief executive officer of Gillette (a Ropes and Gray client whose account Burr helps handle). During his years on the governing board. Burr says he avoided personally handling any legal work for the University, citing an old lawyer's adage. "An attorney who represents himself has a fool for a client...