Word: winner
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This first novel by a previously unknown author has managed to climb quickly onto best-seller lists. Such a feat is infrequent enough to prompt the question why. True, The Good Mother garnered some enthusiastic reviews, and the publisher, evidently sensing a winner, launched a barrage of advertising and publicity. But if this sort of support automatically spelled success, the nation would be crawling with best sellers. Genuine word-of-mouth, pass-along reader enthusiasm cannot be sustained by ads alone. Books that seemingly come out of nowhere to capture wide audiences do so primarily because they offer exactly what...
...paper ran into management troubles. It dipped into the red during the first quarter of this year, while the tightly run News jumped to a formidable circulation lead (390,275 vs. 244,629). The News's owner, A.H. Belo Corp., could rightly claim victory, but perhaps the biggest winner was MediaNews President and CEO William Dean Singleton, 34. As an 18-year-old, Singleton had been turned down for a job by the Times Herald. Said he last week: "I figured the only way to work there was to buy the place...
...northern Nevada. Succumbing to public pressure to clean up its old demolition ranges, the Army last year turned over to a civilian contractor the tricky business of clearing the Hawthorne site, which had become a sprawling dump for more than 30 years' worth of defective or leftover bombs. The winner of the $3.2 million contract was a small new firm based in Washington named UXB International. (UXB, which stands for "unexploded bomb," was in the title of a BBC and PBS television series.) The company was set up by a former Navy lieutenant, Phillip Hough, who served two tours...
Olympic volleyball star Flo Hyman's death last year from Marfan's syndrome was kinder. No recriminations followed. In strictly athletic terms, the loss of Bias to the N.B.A. recalls the poignant professional football career of Syracuse Running Back Ernie Davis, the first black Heisman Trophy winner, who during the early '60s learned the Cleveland playbook while fighting leukemia and died at 23 before the first down...
James Dorsey, press secretary to Democratic Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, said he would have no comment. Dukakis is unopposed within his party for another term and will meet the winner of the Switzler-Hyatt GOP primary...