Word: priced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bottom line, and each part of, or with ambitions to be, an international publishing conglomerate. In the past three years alone, the adult general-interest book trade has been transformed by at . least 16 major acquisitions, from the 1986 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...
...worry, in the words of Random House's Epstein, about "getting Faulkner on TV." Pointing to a promising first novel on his desk, he muses, "This just turned up the way these things do. But if the book is a success, we may never publish him again. His price may be too high...
...Sciences, which is not unusual, that this was a property which had been more or less purchased...with the idea that it would be used, eventually, when it was needed, for Arts and Sciences. So we would be happy to let them have the property in return for the price we paid for it at a suitable rate of interest...
...Harvard College graduate and knows the local scenery," says Markham Professor of Government H. Douglas Price. Verba received his doctorate from Princeton and then returned to Harvard in 1972 after teaching stints at Stanford and the University of Chicago...
...Verba's many different faculty roles comeat a price, as far as some student activists areconcerned. They say that, because of Verba'sinsider status, he relied too much on the goodwillof faculty members in proposing affirmative actionguidelines...