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The Slump by John Updike

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Name: John Updike
Birth Date: March 18, 1932
Place of Birth: Shillington, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, poet

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Biography of John (Hoyer) Updike
19205 words, approx. 64 pages
[This entry was updated by Donald J. Greiner (University of South Carolina) from his entry in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series, pp. 250-276.] A reader would be hard pressed to name a contemporary author other than John Updike...
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Biography of John (Hoyer) Updike
19166 words, approx. 63.9 pages
A reader would be hard pressed to name a contemporary author other than John Updike whose work is more in tune with the way most Americans live. Unconcerned with apocalypse in his fiction, undeterred by the universal absurdity that threatens to negate th...
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Biography of John (Hoyer) Updike
14259 words, approx. 47.5 pages
While his stature as a short-story writer may be perpetually overshadowed by the novelistic achievements of the Rabbit tetralogy--Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1990)--John Updike has exhibited a susta...
 


News and Journals
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Tribology & Lubrication Technology
Out of the Slump
12/01/2007: 755 words, approx. 3 pages
If you're like most sales people I know, every now and then you find yourself in that dreaded corner of sales hell known as the Slump. The Slump is that place where deals don't close. It's that place where you wander aimlessly, wondering what...
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Biopharm
A monster of a slump
04/01/2000: 1,900 words, approx. 6 pages
Anyone can suffer a downturn in productivity Had a slump lately? A slump is a vicious, nasty thin. I believe it is "alive" in some aspects: It can take over and control your body and mind. It's like a monster lurking out there,...
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AP News
Construction activity falls in November
1/3/2007: 310 words, approx. 1 pages
Construction activity showed further weakness as spending on homes dropped for a record eighth consecutive month.The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that building activity edged down 0.2 percent in November to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.18 trillion. That followed declines of 0.3 percent in...
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AP News
Rates on 30-year mortgages dip slightly
7/26/2007: 276 words, approx. 1 pages
Rates on 30-year mortgages dipped slightly this week as evidence grew of more troubles in the slumping housing market.Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, reported Thursday that 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.69 percent this week, down from 6.73 percent last week. The high point for this...
 


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