Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...While the heavy advances for potential best sellers have prompted some authors to fear publishers will neglect books of lesser commercial potential, the demand for new books has actually produced a greater variety at many firms. Doubleday plans to publish 18 literary novels this year by first- or second-time authors, in contrast to only two in 1986. Says literary agent Virginia Barber: "We used to get as little as $5,000 for a literary novel. Now it might sell...
Although an overwhelming majority of law students enter private practice upon graduation, an increasing number are pursuing careers in public service, which almost always offers lower pay than the private sector. In fact, demand is rising so fast, says Sander, that the report recommends the establishment of an endowment to relieve LIPP's strain on the school's budget...
Hopefully, these internalized messages of openness will be what differentiates this generation's leadership from the past. We can still criticize our college experience for not being the intellectual epiphany people expect from Harvard. And we can demand further opening of this community. But if we take away one thing from Harvard, it won't be a career or an inapplicable liberal arts education; it will be an open mind...
...Americans' insatiable demand for the quirky details of media stars' personal lives does not mesh easily with desire to separate work from home, according to Kalb...
...These females gossip, backbite, succumb regularly to the rhythmic fluctuations of their metabolisms. Having achieved some measure of independence or success, they are likely to throw everything over for some handsome rotter or an insincere promise of love and security. Starlady Sandra knows that her new passion will demand the suppression of her lively intelligence: "If only I can hold my tongue I might yet be the one he keeps in his bed, for ever. Craven, yes indeed, but there it is. My female lost to his male...