Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more titles are being published (68,000 in 1996), hardcover sales of adult trade books slipped nearly 7% from 1996 to 1997, and overall sales dropped 3.4%. Under corporate ownership, the cultural appeal of books began to give way increasingly to bottom-line considerations. Media czars, expecting books to yield the same 15%-to-20% profits as their other content businesses, have become impatient with their publishers' balance sheets, which seldom return more than...
Drip, drip, drip. JANET RENO's plumbers are back on the job, mounting yet another investigation of leaks to reporters. It's a subject that seems to have a particular fascination for her, though such probes rarely yield anything conclusive. The impetus this time is a Feb. 27 Wall Street Journal item saying Department of Justice prosecutors had recommended indicting former Republican National Committee chairman HALEY BARBOUR in connection with his solicitation of funds from an overseas businessman. The spate of probes to track down loose lips in the halls of Justice--including one to find the source...
...certainly think more people will call [as a result of the new policies]," Fitzsimmons said. "What we don't know is how this will ultimately affect the yield...We intend to make competitive offers...
...likes of Cuba, Libya and Iran, the South African president also publicly criticized President Clinton?s African trade bill for its ?trade-not-aid? formulation, and for seeking to set political limits on trade by African countries. But his two days on safari in Botswana aren?t likely to yield any such nasty surprises -- not unless he gets the elephants really...
...included, but, nonetheless, the number is staggeringly high. Will the threateningly high volume mean quality shortages in the near future, leading to a reactionary, elitist reduction of productions sometime in the future? We can hope not, because the percentage of shows worth their lovinggoodness remains constant, meaning a higher yield the higher the number of shows (the math is staggering). One reduction can be made, if things get dire: the annual freshman musical, which perhaps would do better as a valuable organizational exercise, with optionally open rehearsal, but not ever publicly performed...