Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decades of legal squabbling and unruly protests have turned the Seabrook, N.H., nuclear-power plant into a symbol of everything that is wrong with atomic energy in the U.S. But the start-up of low-power testing at Seabrook last week signaled that a fresh wave of pro-nuclear sentiment is stirring in Washington. The testing permit was the second granted in two months: the first went to Long Island's Shoreham nuclear plant, even though the reactor's owner had already decided to junk...
...which represents one-third of an industry that includes books ranging from college texts to Bibles, editors are frantically putting bets on any potential best sellers. In recent months, the spin of the wheel has made not only a construction worker but also a Yale history professor and several fresh college graduates richer than they ever could have imagined. Publishers say the bull market for manuscripts has become "hysterical," "desperate" and even "silly." Still, most of them cannot help playing the game...
What has increased the publishing industry's appetite for fresh manuscripts is a steady, decade-long expansion in the market for hard-cover best sellers. With their combined 2,100 outlets, Waldenbooks and B. Dalton have created a vast distribution system for general-interest hardcovers. The Book Industry Study Group estimates that retailers sold 286 million such books last year, up 33% from 1983, while publishers' revenues from those volumes nearly doubled, to an estimated $2.2 billion...
SCHUBERT: IMPROMPTUS (EMI). Pianist Melvyn Tan combines remarkable technical precision with a romantic sensibility in his fresh interpretations of these Schubert perennials...
...served on the Board of Fresh-person Advisors, as acting director of the BSC and director of the College's Advanced Standing program. As a Graduate School of Education research associate in 1970, he joined the "Pathways to Identity Project: A Longitudinal Study in Black Adolescence...