Word: deale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities (hard-cover copies sold: 750,000), rival publishing houses were rumored to be making offers of $15 million or more for his next book. Farrar, Straus, which had total revenues of only about $30 million last year, managed to assemble a deal with paperback publisher Bantam Books that paid Wolfe an estimated $5 million to $7 million. Says Roger Straus III, the publishing house's managing director: "It's a terrific strain on us. It's like a Monopoly game out there, and everybody has play money, but we're buying Park Place...
...reforms. Analysts in Beijing feared that Deng had cast his lot with this ideologically rigid Gang of Elders, as the group was dubbed. Such fears were buttressed by renewed government denunciations of "bourgeois liberalization," the phrase that presaged a conservative crackdown two years ago. Some Chinese found a good deal of irony in the awkward situation. "The 80-year-olds," commented one wag, "are calling meetings of 70-year-olds to decide which 60-year-olds should retire...
...Great Deal of Autonomy...
...When you've got someone in his position that you've got a lot of confidence in, he has a great deal of autonomy," O'Brien says...
Watson was quoted as saying, "Overreacting and being paranoid is the only way we can deal with this system...Never think you imagined [racial insensitivity], because chances are that you didn...