Word: handbook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take advantage of California's simplified divorce procedures. The result was How to Do Your Own Divorce in California, which has since sold 300,000 copies and may have saved its readers as much as $80 million in legal fees. Another big seller is California Tenants' Handbook (85,000 copies), which drew this letter from a disgruntled landlord: "I have just read your fascinating book and have put [my wife's and my] duplexes up for sale. We can't survive with all those lawsuits you promote." The guides have produced relatively few suits; most readers...
...since the GSA wants to answer the questions and alleviate the anxieties of all students--not just homosexuals--they must reach as many people as possible. It's not as if the truly "official" registration material that addresses homosexuality--little more than one paragraph in the University Health Services handbook--overwhelms students with information...
Students found guilty of plagiarism, which Bossert said is a more accurate description of the students' actions than cheating," would "ordinarily be required to withdraw from the college," according to the Handbook for Students.CrimsonElizabeth HarpelProfessor WILLIAM H. BOSSERT...
...must call it first; it flashes a C next to its choice. If Election and Survey Unit Director Warren Mitofsky concurs with the computer's judgment, a W will turn up next to the name. Then the choice will be announced, but not as a "winner." Cautions the handbook...
...Britain, American N.U.C. courses rely more on assigned reading than on their half-hour TV programs, which are designed to maintain a high level of interest among stay-at-home students. Chatty, first-person handbooks, specially written for the course by such noted teachers as Oxford Historian J.P.V.D. Balsdon and Archaeologist Peter Salway, a regional director of the Open University, guide students in their reading of original source material. On page 44 of one handbook, for instance, Balsdon notes briskly, "I cannot imagine your having the time" to read all 77 pages on the Emperor Augustus, but he adds...