Word: manually
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...growing popularity of do-it-yourself legal aid certainly seems to have caught the eyes of Texas. The court panel, which enforces a statute against the unauthorized practice of law, initially won a 1992 ban against a manual that contained forms and instructions for creating a will. More recently, the committee sued Parsons Technology, an Iowa company that markets Quicken Family Lawyer software. The case is pending. And in a letter to Nolo last year, the panel expressed concern about the company's Living Trust Maker--2.0 software, which has sold 175,000 copies nationally. Panel chairman Mark Ticer, whose...
...after lots of crunching noises, the computer booted in something ominously called "safe mode." I phoned Sony's 24-hour help line, but the help guy had never heard of FunMail. Luckily, the manual's troubleshooting section allowed me to diagnose a hardware conflict and explained how to cure it. But when at last I fired up FunMail, the final half-second of any message I recorded repeated itself, as in "Seltzer boy! boy!" A Sony spokesman said I was the first person to report the bug. I am not surprised. At least I didn't lose any tools...
With the goal of cutting the cost of building jetliners 25%, Boeing began by designing its wide-bodied 777 (rolled out in 1996) entirely by computer, eliminating countless drawings and mockups. The company also narrowed parts choices to standard options, much as carmakers offer automatic or manual transmissions, or six-cylinder or eight-cylinder engines. And Boeing has been consulting everyone from marketers to machinists on the making of its planes...
Conservatives have an easy explanation for these forgiving attitudes toward the President's private treatment of women. They say Clinton-loving feminists, as if following the how-to-catch-a-man Rules manual, have chosen to overlook the faults of a man who has been their best provider. Ideals be damned for the President who vetoed the ban on partial-birth abortions...
...quite a strong statement by the Court. The employer can't escape liability with just a paragraph in the employee manual," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "But the employee still has to prove that her career was threatened in some way, and Jones wasn't able to do that...