Word: sum
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Bidding wars for the audio rights to potential best sellers are becoming nearly as heated as those waged over movie rights. Tom Clancy's newest novel, Debt of Honor, was picked up by Random House Audio for a record sum -- reportedly $1 million. Though sales of a typical book on tape still represent only a fraction of the hardcover sales (usually 10% or less), the numbers are climbing. The Bridges of Madison County, read by author Robert James Waller, sold 163,000 audio copies. Some 250,000 tapes of John Grisham's latest novel, The Chamber, have been shipped...
...something different now from what it once was, what was it? By most accounts, it first emerged among urban blacks, for whom it could be both a defense against a hostile world and the sum of the special insights of life under pressure. Ginsberg, who with Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs forms part of the Holy Trinity of Beat literature, recalls that the term hip migrated into mainstream speech from the drug culture and the jazz world it intersected. "There it meant tolerant. It was a word used among junkies. It implied a knowingness and understanding...
Type: Lump sum...
...know, salaried employees have neither the tenure protection of faculty members nor the union protection available to hourly workers. My friend was therefore compelled to accept the offer of a lump sum payment, and has promised to sign a release stating that she will not contest the settlement. Her case, as far as I am concerned, is closed. My effort now is not directed at redressing the injustice done to her, but on seeking public opinion support to persuade Harvard, for the benefit of other employees in a like situation, to revise its restrictive policy on method of payment, which...
Although Human Resources' present policy of lump sum payments is obviously the easiest and fastest way to close the books on an older staff member who is no longer needed or wanted, in my judgment it is in Harvard's unlighted self-interest to move to a policy that permits multi-year payments and doubles the benefit to the employee, at no added cost to Harvard, except the administrative expense involved...