Word: handbook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dressed as one might expect to find her--in a prep-plaid shirt, green sweater, blue blazer, penny loafers, and Nantucket accessories--Lisa Birnbach, editor and coauthor of "The Official Preppy Handbook" came to the Coop yesterday to sign copies of her book...
...Handbook," which Birnbach said, is "still number one nationally on paperback charts," was released in November 1980, 900,000 copies ago, and is now in its fourteenth printing...
Although the "handbook" is a satirical attack at the preppy lifestyle. Birnbach said she is really "pro-preppy." She feels, however, that the preppies "have to laugh at themselves...
...from a nearby reservoir. National Guard escorts now accompany water trucks to the town; one truck was blown up last week and its driver killed. Ironically, the guerrilla-induced water shortage has transformed the government forces in Suchitoto into local heroes-hardly the tactics recommended in the guerrilla warfare handbook...
...business--going door-to-door in a neighborhood selling educational and religious books, primarily the two-volume "Webster Student Handbook Set"--was a six-day-a-week, twelve-hour-a day enterprise. Johnson said, adding that he earned 43 per cent of sales, which ranged from $80 to $240 daily...