Further down the line one can imagine a Pentagon apology, a book contract, a speaking tour.

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When "Abraham Lincoln" hit the best-seller list (and earned the praise of renowned Lincoln scholar Doris Kearns Goodwin), Mr. Grahame-Smith renegotiated his book contract.

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The American company Hyperion has also agreed a two-book contract.

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Publishers vied to give her a book contract.

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Lawrence Cunningham, a law professor at George Washington University who is writing a book about celebrity contract disputes, says the judge took a narrow view of the case.

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It would put a buyer together with a seller, take "delivery" of the contract for one fleeting moment and book the entire "sale" as revenue to Enron.

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The title story, of a man who tried to hold God to a contract, had echoes of both the Book of Job and, more distinctly, of the parables of the Talmud and Midrash.

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Workers and managers in Dundee are guided by a labor contract the size of a pocket calendar, not the usual Manhattan phone book.

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That contractual structure would probably look more like an agency contract than a publishing one, a percentage of all revenues from the book.

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