Word: manually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week in such subjects as navigation and astronomy, but each also spends many more hours poring over what Astronaut Crew Trainer Thomas Kaiser calls the "cookbook"-a 21-volume compendium of launch, orbit and descent procedures for piloting Columbia that will be on board during the flight. The manual is changed constantly; in the office shared by Young and Crippen is a stack of mimeographed revisions 2½ ft. high. The two men have also spent more than 1,200 hours working in elaborate mock-ups of the Columbia's flight decks, familiarizing themselves with the maze of switches...
...best for myself during my life. I think that is only human nature." Schell finds such sentiments to be radical departures from the orthodoxy of the founding father. It is as if people who were raised clutching Mao's Little Red Book had suddenly embraced an est training manual...
What happened during the halftime break nobody knows, but when the game reconvened it was an entirely different Crimson team that took the floor. After a 20-minute delay, a malfunctioning scoreboard and time clock replaced by a manual chalkboard and little red signs to signal fouls and timeouts, imbuing the game with a nostalgic, high-school atmosphere, the second half and the Friar dominance started...
Nolo was founded in 1971 in a brown shingled house in Berkeley. Two Berkeley Law School graduates, Ralph Warner and Charles Sherman, emotionally and financially drained after three years as poverty lawyers, teamed up on a manual designed to 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...
...book and had him convicted of criminal contempt for the unlawful practice of law. Dacey ultimately vindicated himself and his book on appeal to the state's highest court (his lawyers' fees:, $75,000). Now living in Ireland, Dacey released a thicker version of his manual last spring. He tries not to be bitter. "There are honest lawyers," says he, "just as there are four-leaf clovers...