Word: writing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over a fax machine, or even on no proposal at all. Yale history professor Paul Kennedy, who received an advance of about $20,000 from Random House for his surprise 1988 best seller, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, got $600,000 from the same publisher to write a second book that will take years to finish. Carolyn Heilbrun, whose nonfiction books have never sold more than 20,000 copies, just walked away with $350,000 from W.W. Norton for a biography of feminist Gloria Steinem...
...some programs, youngsters discuss or write up their own cases in an effort to identify the behavior patterns or situations that are liable to trigger hostile actions. For example, sexual offenders are advised to avoid baby-sitting. In the program operated by the Justice Resource Institute in Massachusetts, members concentrate on overcoming aggressive thinking patterns -- for instance, assuming that they are the butt of the joke whenever people are laughing...
...They vote with me," he says. "Younotice how they write in the paper, 'And Mr.Vellucci votes with the CCA.' It isn't 'and Mr.Vellucci.' The CCA votes with Vellucci...
When the pair finally produced a report a few weeks after the announcement, it contained a full page of mistakes. Specifically, one of Pons' graduate students who helped write the report had his name "inadvertantly" left off the report...
...opening that I was applying for that said, 'your credentials are wonderful, you should be an associate professor instead of an assistant professor, but we don't want to hire you [because you are a woman].' That would never happen today. Someone might think it, but one would never write it down. Things are much better. When I first went to Washington University I was not allowed to meet with the other administrators--they had never had a woman in the administrators' loop. When I first began to meet with them there was this short period of discomfort and then...