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...first of 458 V-22 Ospreys finally landed in the Pentagon's front yard, greeted by Pentagon brass and the Marine Band. But the program has had powerful critics from the start. The Bush Administration tried to kill it, saying its $79 million-a-copy price tag was too steep. The Army has refused to buy the Osprey, citing its cost. Pentagon officials acknowledge that the Cobra's crash--and Bell's role in it--could complicate the Marines' efforts to keep buying V-22s because of doubts it might raise about Bell. "If the Marines come down hard...
...after its publication in Britain. Those U.S. readers who had not managed to obtain a copy of the British edition, chiefly through Internet orders, swamped bookstores nationwide. From El Centro, Calif., to Littleton, N.H., many stores opened for business at 12 a.m.; others offered customers tea and crumpets or steep initial discounts. Barbara Babbit Kaufman, president and founder of the Chapter 11 bookstore chain in Atlanta, reports selling more Harry Potter books in the first three hours of business than Tom Wolfe's novel A Man in Full, sold during its first day of availability last November. "Tom Wolfe...
...while sending her child to Harvard would be a steep cost, she would not hesitate for a second...
...cost, in terms of convenience to today's undergraduates, is awfully steep. We cannot mince words: cockroaches are loathsome. There is very little more revolting than watching cockroaches scurry through one's room in the middle of the night. And the species native to the Harvard ecosystem grows to a truly disgusting length of an inch to an inch-and-a-half, no pretty sight in the bathroom before breakfast...
Weitzman would get 10% of my take, which seemed steep until I realized it was 10% of nothing. That felt like a small price for a guy to call me all the time and tell me I'm funny. Still, I wanted to be sure I had the very best manager telling me I'm funny. So I asked some writer friends for the names of their agents and called three of them...