Word: strause
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first serial rights are an important source of income for us." Whatever the final outcome of the case, publishers are considering new tactics to avoid such battles. Some warn that galleys of major books will be offered to fewer bidders with more stringent security restrictions. Others, like Roger Straus, president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, think the ruling "will force earlier first publication," sacrificing the advantages of later publicity so that reporters will not have time to get unauthorized copies...
...next time I saw them, we were all drunk, at a party in Straus Hall late that night. None of us were really sure what was going to happen to us--and whether Harvard knew. John looked at me for a second. "That was a great idea," he said...
...Bernard Malamud; Farrar Straus Giroux; 350 pages...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 170 pages...
...which involves a pattern of escalating abuse in a situation from which the victim feels she cannot escape. Because they are usually physically stronger than their wives, men are less likely to be battered; for reasons of pride, they are also far less likely to report it. Sociologist Murray Straus, an expert on family violence, nonetheless estimates that each year 282,000 men are beaten by their wives...