Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also mean big enough sales to justify past advances for all those critically successful though financially disappointing books that had to be remaindered. But not every good writer produces bulldozers. Anne Tyler has only dented the best-seller lists. She has a loyal following of reviewers as well as general readers. But one does not think of her as a breakthrough writer. After eleven novels, she just grows...
...from 1920s-era California, helped boost sales 100% in three years. It also landed Riney the national account for Perrier in 1986, which is currently worth $20 million. The most impressive sign that small agencies have come into their own may be Riney's capture last May of General Motors' $100 million account for its new nameplate, the forthcoming Saturn. For the most successful small agencies, the biggest challenge may be to stay that...
...product of Bush's opposition research team. In 1977, during Dukakis' first term as Governor, the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill requiring teachers to lead their classes in the pledge each day. Following standard state practice, Dukakis sought an advisory ruling on the bill from his attorney general as well as the state supreme court. Both found the bill unconstitutional: the landmark 1943 U.S. Supreme Court decision West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette held that requiring a student to recite the pledge under the threat of expulsion violated the Constitution's guarantee of freedom of speech and worship...
Dukakis' veto was overridden by large margins in the legislature, but the state attorney general ruled that the law was "unenforceable." As in most states, the pledge is still recited in Massachusetts elementary schools on a voluntary basis. "Of course, the pledge is taken all the time in Massachusetts," Dukakis said last week. "We take it in ceremonies and everything else. I encourage schoolchildren to say the Pledge of Allegiance . . . That's not the issue, and the Republicans know...
...information provided by Conrad probably included details on NATO troop mobilization and the location of barbed wire and antitank traps as well as the positioning of nuclear-capable artillery. Says former Army Chief of Staff General Edward C. Meyer: "With that sort of information on the Soviets, I could blow away a whole Soviet corps in wartime...