A few days before MF Global's collapse, regulators stationed at the firm were assured its books were in order.
Rest assured that books are here to stay, at least among those for whom reading is more than the newest new thing.
When David O. Selznick produced the film version--which has assured the book's continued popularity--he suppressed much of Mitchell's racism, including her glorification of the KKK.
Now in his 50s, Muldoon burst on to the scene in 1973, when he was just 21, with his brilliantly assured first book, New Weather.
Bohr was not just a political Utopian, he was too late: communist sympathisers and spies had given Stalin deep knowledge of the American and British programmes, undermining the basis for a grand bargain and sending the opposing camps barrelling down a different road towards the bleak security of mutually assured destruction.The book still scores some powerful points.
Her second, stronger volume of poems, "Ariel," would not appear until 1965, by which time Plath's posthumous fame assured the book widespread attention, superlative reviews and sales that would eventually make it one of the best-selling volumes of poetry to be published in England and America in the 20th century.
Luckily, we are assured that the books can be read in any order.
Whichever you choose, be assured that both books were translated by Don Bartlett, who seems to relish this tough stuff as much as we do.
A woman, unfamiliar with the ways of modern states, moves forward with some camels, carrying a copy of the Koran on her head, assured the holy book would protect her.
Strenuous efforts by the British government to suppress the book assured it a wide readership.
