Word: toward
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Publishers are profligate these days partly because the competition forces them to be. The book industry's long march toward consolidation has left it dominated by about six major houses, each infused with capital, each run by managers whose favored reading is the bottom line, and each part of, or with ambitions to be, an international publishing conglomerate. In the past three years alone, the adult general-interest book trade has been transformed by at . least 16 major acquisitions, from the 1986 purchase of Doubleday by West Germany's Bertelsmann (price: $500 million) to last year's takeover of Macmillan...
...that this time it is the U.S. challenging the Soviet Union to speed up arms talks and go beyond Moscow's initial proposals. Declared Bush: "Here we go now, on the offensive, with a proposal that is bold and that tests whether the Soviet Union will move toward balance." What counts also is that NATO has managed to hold itself together...
...recent years, the focus of his scholarshiphas increasingly shifted toward issues of socialand political equality in capitalist systems. Twoof the three books he has published since 1985have the word "equality" in the title, includingEquality in America: The View From the Top,which he co-authored...
...year at Harvard began with an innocent enough reminder. In all College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences registration packets appeared a pamphlet entitled, "Working Toward a Community of Equals." In response to requests by gay and lesbian students, the office of coeducation published the University's explicit policy prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and included resources and tips on "insensitive" behavior. Six houses, at the requests of their masters, named tutors for bisexual, gay and lesbian issues...
Again, the question turns on the problem of whether a system geared toward those who have long been in the country essentially discriminates against a people who by law could not emigrate freely into the U.S. before the 1960s. And who decides on "diversity," such as exemplified by athletic ability...