Biography Essay"Teen-agers' Laureate," the title conferred upon Robert Cormier by Tony Schwartz in Newsweek (16 July 1979), is fittingly bestowed upon this widely read and critically acclaimed author ...
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"Terrorism, suicide, child murder, betrayal, personality destruction, and governmental and religious corruption." They might seem more like topics for television movies-of-the-week than themes for you...
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Robert Cormier began his life in the French-Canadian section of Leominster, Massachusetts on January 17, 1925. "We lived in a three-story tenement. I remember my mother and father heating up the water...
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While Robert Cormier began his career writing fiction for adults, The Chocolate War (1974) established his reputation as an author of young adult literature. He says that he writes novels with young p...
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[This entry was updated by Sylvia Patterson Iskander (University of Southwestern Louisiana) from her entry in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, pp. 34-51.]"Teen-agers' L...
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The European Central Bank, which has repeatedly pumped extra funds into European money markets for two weeks, said Wednesday it plans to auction supplementary three-month funds valued at $53.97 bil...
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Quentin Tarantino would love "Illegal Tender": drug deals gone wrong, sassy Latina assassins in leopard-print pants, shootouts in suburbia and a buxom, pistol-packing mom at the center of it all.It...
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What's the best way to make a bank robber turn around and walk out the door empty-handed? Try a handshake and a smile.Excessive friendliness is the key to the "Safecatch" system created by FBI Spec...
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U.S. financial giant Citigroup Inc. closed its tender offer for
No. 3 Japanese brokerage Nikko Cordial Corp. on Thursday, with
anticipation of the buyout bid's success prevailing in the stock...
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Nikko Cordial Corp.'s share price topped Citigroup Inc.'s tender
offer price of 1,700 yen per share Friday for the first time since
the U.S. financial conglomerate launched its offer for Japa...
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Major Japanese construction machinery maker Komatsu Ltd. said
Wednesday it will launch a tender offer for Nippei Toyama Corp. next
Tuesday to turn the machine tool maker into its wholly owned...
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Hoya Corp. said Monday it will begin a tender offer Tuesday
worth up to 105 billion yen for camera maker Pentax Corp., with the
goal of turning it into...
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Hoya Corp. will launch a tender offer for Pentax Corp. in early
June in an attempt to turn the camera maker into a subsidiary and
sharpen its co...
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The infrastructure ministry suspended 55 construction companies
Friday from its tenders as designated bidders for up to four months
in punishment for their involvement in bid riggings over de...
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Frankfurt (dpa) - The European Central Bank (ECB) once again
offered banks in the European system a so-called "quick tender"
Monday in order to ensure money market rates did...
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ECB plans 40 billion euro tender
