Word: handbook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those upwardly mobile folk with designer water, running shoes, pickled parquet floors and $450,000 condos in semislum buildings? Yuppies, of course, for Young Urban Professionals, and the one true guide to their carefully hectic life-style is The Yuppie Handbook (Long Shadow Books; $4.95). Tongue firmly in chic, Authors Marissa Piesman and Marilee Hartley tirelessly chronicle the ways of the Yuppie, along with its lesser-known subspecies the Guppie (Gay Urban Professional) and Puppie (Pregnant Urban Professional). Both writers are accredited Yups: Piesman, 32, is a lawyer, and Hartley, 38, is an editor...
...result, calendar displays are taking over ever larger sections of bookstores. One hot seller is the A-Hunk-a-Day Desk Calendar, which bears the subtitle Aren't You Glad It's Leap Year? The Buzzword-a-Day calendar, written by the authors of The Official MBA Handbook, gets the year off to a ruthless start by defining deadwood as "Anyone in your company who is more senior than you are." The Computer Desk Diary marks high-tech anniversaries like the date of Apple Computer's founding (Jan. 3). Jane Fonda's Year of Fitness...
Winthrop Senior Tutor Lee Pelton said yesterday that the College specifically prohibits the use of candles in dormitory rooms in the student handbook. He added that he will remind Winthrop residents of the regulation in a House newsletter...
...make sure an action this important does not pass unnoticed, Harvard should annually publicize and explain its separation from the clubs in a forum like the Student Handbook. We hope such a statement would discourage undergraduates from investing their time and money in the clubs...
...want to be a lawyer? Well, D. Robert White Esq. has some advice for you. White, 30, is the author of The Official Lawyer's Handbook, but you can bet your convertible debentures that this volume of dos and don'ts will not win an award from the American Bar Association. Lawyers, according to White, are an avaricious bunch of dull drudges who want to do you out of your life savings. One might give careful consideration to pleading guilty and going to prison before hiring one, White suggests. Is he serious? A little. The Official Lawyer...