Word: scrappings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Weeks before the Puzo sale, competing publishers had laid intricate game plans that many would scrap to stay in the race. Final offers from runners-up Ballantine and Pocket Books were both $2.5 million, only $50,000 short of N.A.L. That seems a relatively small gap, but it is a chasm to the bidder already hundreds of thousands of dollars over his limit. In such cases, terms of the sale tip the balance...
...rise of the yen against the U.S. dollar. Ironically, a number of the country's domestic producers are being driven out of business by low-priced imports from developing lands. At some Japanese plants, workers are destroying textile machinery so it can be sold as scrap...
...schedule for himself as to what amount of money he would like to be making," his wife Mary once said. "Like maybe in five years he might like to be making $5,000 and in ten years $10,000. It was on a little scrap of paper...
...camps and trekked across the Egyptian sands to Mount Sinai. When he is not traveling or writing, Potok often indulges in an early love for painting; numerous examples of his work adorn his home. In fact, he once wanted to be an artist, but his parents persuaded him to scrap the idea...
...warrants do not prevent investigators from poring over all sorts of things while looking for the specific evidence they are seeking. Journalists are afraid this could have a chilling effect on sources, who might choose to remain silent for fear that their names would be found on a stray scrap of paper during a search. Edward W. Barrett, publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review, envisions a distressing scenario: "A newspaper in Blankville, Tenn., starts an expose of police corruption, and at 11 o'clock some night, police come in with a warrant given by a docile judge. They...