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...While the heavy advances for potential best sellers have prompted some authors to fear publishers will neglect books of lesser commercial potential, the demand for new books has actually produced a greater variety at many firms. Doubleday plans to publish 18 literary novels this year by first- or second-time authors, in contrast to only two in 1986. Says literary agent Virginia Barber: "We used to get as little as $5,000 for a literary novel. Now it might sell...
...Domestic issues are every bit as crucial as other issues. The issues on the homefront--I don't see them as lesser issues," Pauley says...
...thing is, it is a constant problem for us too. It is not as though we are not aware of how hard it is to keep your work going," Vendler says. "If someone can't keep their work going when they are doing lesser service then they won't be able to do it later. There is some quality you are looking for of an ability to package your time...
...Once again the State Department and the Pentagon are at odds, and what passes for policy shows little promise of dislodging the general. At a meeting convened by Bush in early February, State argued that Noriega is a danger to U.S. security; Defense countered that Noriega is a lesser evil than any of the underlings likely to succeed him as commander in chief. "Bush was very surprised to see that there was no unity," says an official. "He ended the meeting by telling everyone he would make up his mind on his own." Shortly after that meeting, Bush signed...
...beach party, using black-market chemicals to produce 100 lbs. of crank, presold to a buyer in Grants Pass, Ore., for $15,000 a lb. Almost a million net, even before the powder hit the streets, sold by the gram for nearly the same price as cocaine. A lesser cook chortles, "Those people in Oregon are taking everything we can make, and they pay a premium." Adds Big John with the believer's certitude: "Dollar for dollar, crank is better than coke: coke is just a little sexier, but crank goes eight times as far." It is obviously a more...