Word: meeting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purchase of Doubleday by West Germany's Bertelsmann (price: $500 million) to last year's takeover of Macmillan by British publishing magnate Robert Maxwell ($2.7 billion). As early as 1987, Warner Books chairman William Sarnoff quipped at the booksellers' convention in Washington that soon "we'll all just meet at the office of the lone remaining publisher." At this point, according to James Milliot, editor of the industry newsletter BP Report, the top six publishing houses reap 60% of all adult-book revenues, in contrast...
...They are aware of the appropriate criticisms of their experiments and are producing a report that will meet those criticisms," Brophy said. The report is expected to be out by mid-summer...
...going to be a cultural experience, a sports experience. It's going to be incredible," the Eliot House senior says. Somewhat more wistfully he adds, "That will be my last swim meet ever...
December 4: The women's swimming team breaks Brown's 18-meet Ivy streak...
...assistant professor, but we don't want to hire you [because you are a woman].' That would never happen today. Someone might think it, but one would never write it down. Things are much better. When I first went to Washington University I was not allowed to meet with the other administrators--they had never had a woman in the administrators' loop. When I first began to meet with them there was this short period of discomfort and then we got our attention focused on the issues and everything was fine...