Word: textbooks
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...There are a lot of people here who just study for the QRR the night before, pass it and never look at a math textbook again...
...that easy, and there aren't clear boundaries," said Sharon C. Broder, an employee of Houghton-Mifflin, a textbook publisher. "Television can afford to capitalize on what people are interested...
Purcell's name may be best known to students throughout the country for his widely used textbook on electricity and magnetism...
With the boomers leading the way, the demand for stock has soared in the face of a dwindling number of shares--a textbook prescription for prices to head north. Investors pumped more than $220 billion into stock mutual funds in 1996, nearly double the $128 billion registered in 1995. The bulk of the new money represents "patient" capital from boomers saving up for retirement, according to the Investment Company Institute, the mutual-fund-industry trade group. And the trend keeps getting stronger. Some $24 billion of fresh money flowed into stock mutual funds in January, double the amount...
...Coop's cavernous pockets. I must confess to belong to this last group of students. I buy only a couple of books at a time, hoping that perhaps next time there will be an unprecedented sale shelf or that maybe I misread that the price of my flimsy paperback textbook is more than $50. I have an irrational expectation that somehow by making numerous visits to the Coop, the grand total of the cost of my books will be less than the cost if I'd just bought them all at one fell swoop. Needless to say my technique...