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...record is any guide?with one of next year's biggest blockbusters. Stores would be clamoring for every paperback copy of Fools Die they could lay hands on. This, in turn, would give the publisher leverage to persuade sellers to stock other titles on the firm's list: a million-dollar domino theory...
Dozens of local anchors are making more than $100,000 a year, and at least 16 make $200,000 or more (see box). Of course, stratospheric salaries were common at the networks even before Barbara Walters signed her million-dollar contract with ABC two years ago. What is new is that the pearly-toothed, cleft-chinned basso profundos who tell the way it was in your home town are starting to earn network-size salaries. "Only three or four years ago it was significant if an anchor earned $100,000," says Richard Leibner, one of a growing number of talent...
That's it, Mr. Brown. Big-business sports is leaving disaster for the fans. Multibillion dollar television contracts, and million-dollar players are driving sports into skyrocketing financial straits...
...taken a long time, but at last Jimmy Carter is doing a lot of talking with businessmen. Though he created a million-dollar agribusiness, he is a rural populist, and so he has been suspicious of big interests, including corporations. In just the past several months, however, the President has come to believe that many business chiefs are much like himself?up from the bottom, and not without compassion?and that they may have some provocative ideas about his No, 1 domestic problem: the economy...
Savage is not alone in this point of view. As ETS continues to grow, and its "surplus funds" (it enjoys non-profit status) expand beyond the million-dollar mark, the legitimacy of standardized tests is being challenged from a variety of sources. The Bakke case raises serious questions about standardized tests--regarding the kind of information they reveal about a student and the possibility that the tests are culturally biased. The very existence of special admissions programs like the one at the University of California at Davis Medical School, from which Bakke was twice rejected, is based in part...