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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story spinners like Danielle Steel and Judith Krantz are usually reliable bets, a more striking measure of the risky bidding war is the six-figure contracts that publishers are dangling in front of unknown authors or those who would have been considered hopelessly academic not long ago. Sometimes these eye-popping deals are based on a one-page proposal sent over a fax machine, or even on no proposal at all. Yale history professor Paul Kennedy, who received an advance of about $20,000 from Random House for his surprise 1988 best seller, The Rise and Fall of the Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Books, Big Bucks | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...council chair during his junior year, Mandery did not always find it easy to be in the public eye. He says that he often found it difficult to separate criticism of the council and personal criticism...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: All Politics Is Personal | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...Medical School officials reveal that at least one case history from a Harvard-affiliated hospital was used to promote former opthamalogy fellow Tseng's eye ointment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Choices, Changes, and Controversy | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...spend 85 nights in Iowa and to be living on people's farms was really an eye-opening experience for me," says the native Cantabridgian, who grew up in Central Square. A close personal friend of the governor's, Mitropoulis adds that what he most appreciated about his election experience was the opportunity to work with the eclectic set of people involved in the national political campaign...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Professors Return to Harvard From the Campaign Trail | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...role in academia took center stage at the Med School when it was disclosed that Sheffer C.G. Tseng, an ophthalmology fellow, had apparently acted unethically in his research. Tseng was found by the University to have exaggerated results of his experiments on a vitamin A treatment for dry-eye disease while owning substantial stock in the company that manufactures the drug...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Questions Over Ethics | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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