Word: greats
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...Harvard has been one of the great leaders in expanding publishing out to scholars in other disciplines, students and informed readers in the general public," Ryden said...
...Arthur Rosenthal made Harvard the flagship University Press in the U.S.," said Aida D. Donald, editor-in-chief of the Harvard University Press. "We will miss him tremendously, but he leaves us very strong, and, like him, we have great faith in the future of the Press...
Apparently, as Ciavaglia was quick to point out, the coaches know best. Vukonich has been taking great advantage of his new-found freedom...
...crammed with an account of his rationale for writing Bonfire. He says he wanted to create a novel about New York City in the manner of Zola's and Balzac's novels about Paris or Thackeray's Vanity Fair. He kept waiting for some novelist to encompass the great phenomena of the age -- the hippie movement, say, or racial clashes or the Wall Street boom. But no one came forward. "It had been only yesterday, in the 1930s, that the big realistic novel, with its broad social sweep, had put American literature on the world stage for the first time...
...Bureau of Economic Analysis, Japan's direct investment (ownership of at least 10% of any one firm) in the U.S. stood at $53 billion in 1988, a 52% increase since 1987. Even so, Japanese direct investment was only one- fourth that of all Europe, about half that of Great Britain and roughly equal to that of the Netherlands. Nor was it any more one-sided than that of the Dutch. Neither Japan nor any other country imminently threatens to gain economic control over the U.S., whose nonbank multinational corporations have assets totaling well over $5 trillion...