Word: trading
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...several large commercial publishers are determined to change the habits of the large-type-reading public as it grows. This fall, Random House and HarperCollins are launching new divisions to capture the big-print audience. Says Michael Morrison, associate publisher of the HarperCollins adult trade division: "A lot of the reason there has not been an explosion in sales of large-print books in bookstores is that people don't even know they exist. Booksellers have traditionally shelved them in a section in the back of the store." But publishers intend to change that--by persuading booksellers to showcase these...
...market this way." Random House plans to charge the same price for a large-type book as for its conventional-type counterpart--and use the same covers to minimize the perception that these books are different. Says McNamara: "They'll look just as sexy and glossy as the regular trade edition--just a little bit fatter...
Lawrence said has already begun to work withYellen and Blank in areas such as internationaleconomics, international trade, finance and theenvironment, including researching issues like howto persuade developing countries to activelycounteract greenhouse gases...
...specific research interests, as describedon his Berkeley Web page, include "theglobalization of financial markets, the workingsof the foreign exchange market, internationalmacroeconomic policy coordination, regionaltrading blocs, trade and growth in East Asia, andmonetary influences on prices of agricultural andmineral commodities...
...sordid history of self-righteous paternalism, and its policy towards Cuba is no exception. Our longstanding trade embargo against our Communist neighbors to the south is a prime example of our formalized policy of starving people whose dictators we don't like. We have assumed, but not universally earned the right to be puritanical in our dealings with other nations...