The Beige Book, released eight times per year, showed five districts recorded slight to modest increases in economic activity, including Boston and San Francisco.
The book was translated into eight languages and HBO produced a documentary based upon it.
Scott Sedita, an acting coach and author of the book "The Eight Characters of Comedy: Guide to Sitcom Acting and Writing" said that the multi-camera sitcom's automatic invitation to laugh makes it much more accessible to everyone.
In his book, innovation driver number eight is inspiring leadership.
Stop by the historic Avalon Theatre, built in 1921 and dubbed the "Showplace of the Eastern Shore, " and discover why the town ranked number eight in the book The 100 Best Small Towns in America.
Ghana were beaten in the semifinals last year by Zambia, who will look to book their berth in the last eight when taking on Group C leaders Burkina Faso on Tuesday.
Lest you scoff at my predilection for elementary-level reading (the book is rated for ages four to eight), I beg you to look past the pastel illustrations and sing-songy cadence of the writing and see this book for what it is: a beautiful script about parenthood, a poignant parable about life and death, a testimony to when the roles of child and parent become blurry.
Everyone running money then owned tons of IBM as a growth stock, but nobody I knew dared to predict that IBM would one day sell at book value, or that the market would sell at eight times earnings in 1974.
The book includes chapters on Randy McDuff, Chris Rees, and eight other investors like them.
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Seventy-eight percent of Americans had read at least one book in the previous 12 months, with 83 percent among those aged between 16 and 29.
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The publisher has committed to supporting translation of the rest of the book, says Ms. Dai, a process that she says will take at least eight more years.
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British actor Lewis has said he drew inspiration for his character - a US marine freed after eight years as an al Queda captive - from Brian Keenan's 1991 book An Evil Cradling.
That button also lets you buy the book (in the case of a sample), skip to a specific page, bookmark, look up a word in the including Collins dictionary, view the book's table of contents, and adjust the font size -- there are eight font sizes in all.
The report gives a list of eight "Black Swan" scenarios -- a reference to Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book "Black Swan, " which posits that history is built on unforeseeable, surprise events.
It sells at eight times my estimate of 2009 earnings, less than five times cash flow, one times book value and 1.6 times sales.
The company has turned the corner on losses and still sells at only eight times my estimate for 2011 earnings, 50% of annual revenue and 90% of book value.
Guests with the legal name Don Draper (ahem, the "real" Don Draper might not qualify) can book a free one-night stay now through May 8 for stays completed by August 31 at one of eight Howard Johnson locations.
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