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...While the heavy advances for potential best sellers have prompted some authors to fear publishers will neglect books of lesser commercial potential, the demand for new books has actually produced a greater variety at many firms. Doubleday plans to publish 18 literary novels this year by first- or second-time authors, in contrast to only two in 1986. Says literary agent Virginia Barber: "We used to get as little as $5,000 for a literary novel. Now it might sell...
...addition to providing money to subsidize child care programs, Kildee says the bill would try to set minimum health and safety standards for the people and centers receiving its funding to protect children from poor conditions or neglect...
...Radcliffe wants women to make full use of their potential, then Wilson must use her influence with Harvard to speak out about women faculty and issues which concern undergraduate women. Radcliffe's current policy of "benign neglect" will only continue to alienate women students, and will ultimately undermine its own future...
...Take your medicine," the doctor says. But as many as half of all patients take that advice too lightly. They often skip doses, ingest them at the wrong intervals or even neglect their pills for days or weeks at a time, drastically reducing the chances that the medication will be effective...
...pleasure he takes in hunting and fishing, the candidate made it clear that protecting the environment and wildlife from the ravages of pollution would be one of his top priorities. That stance raised great expectations among environmentalists, who had been suffering for eight years while President Reagan's neglect of conservation issues allowed many problems, from acid rain to toxic waste, to fester dangerously. But just four months into the Bush Administration, impatient nature lovers have begun to doubt the strength of the President's commitment to cleaning up the environment. Several signals, including Bush's slow response...