Word: manually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Herb Margolis, 56, strolled into a Los Angeles bookstore 15 months ago, flipped to the index page of Nice Girls Do, the hot-selling sex manual, and went into shock. Reason: he claims that the book, which has sold 183,000 hardcover copies and is now on the paperback bestseller lists, is half his-the result of collaboration in and out of bed with Author Irene Kassorla during a passionate romance that cooled in June 1978. Kassorla, a fiftyish Bel Air psychologist, admits the affair but denies working with Margolis. Says Margolis plaintively: "She wanted us to become the Masters...
...description of sexual harassment, but says only that "an undergraduate in Harvard College who feels he or she has been subjected to discrimination" should contact his or her senior tutor. Orr said this statement is not sufficient. "The only place where sexual harassment is defined is in the personnel manual, because the labor law--Title VII--is much stricter," she added...
...Make War is all the more chilling for including such bloodless assessments. A hybrid of manual and analysis, the book describes what warriors and their equipment can and cannot do. Dunnigan is no recruiting sergeant. Details of ground, air and sea operations, nuclear and chemical capabilities and logistics are rendered in a neutral tone that amounts to wry understatement on human nature. On the standard of living at the front: "It is very low. The overriding goal is not to get hit by flying objects." On looting: "Arming a man still seems to change his concepts of property rights...
...some 300 yds. short of the runway. Of 174 passengers and crew aboard the Japan Air Lines DC-8 bound from Fukuoka, 24 people died. Police claimed last week that Katagiri told them he felt ill the morning of the flight. Said he: "After I switched from auto to manual operation just before landing, I felt nausea, then an inexplicable feeling of terror, and completely lost consciousness...
...relatives, like its venerable ancestor, pinball, Pac-Man providers the clearest example you'll ever see of the theory of positive reinforcement, negative feedback Do something smart and you keep playing Do something dumb and wham' you have to stop. Buy this shiny little booklet-which looks like the manual they give you with a new T.V. and goes about as deeply into the product's real meaning-and you can go on playing forever...