Wages posted their second straight sizable advance.

Job growth slowed last month as unemployment inched upward and wages posted their second straight sizable advance, the Government said today.

This is particularly problematic, the producers said, because none of the shows had attracted a sizable pre-opening advance in ticket sales.

Among intermediate goods, energy dropped 5.5 percent while nondurable materials used in manufacturing turned down, by two-tenths of 1 percent, after three straight sizable advances.

"If you don't have a sizable advance, you are not only not getting a country house, you're not getting your book out there."

Within 24 hours the article was sold to Warner Books for a sizable six-figure advance.

But incomes would have posted a sizable advance had it not been for the California earthquake and other special factors.

Undoubtedly he is being paid a sizable advance.

He said that a local newspaper publisher, David Cade Miller, had given him a sizable advance for the work.

Their agent, Esther Newberg negotiated another sizable advance for the authors.