Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faces such a conundrum, and rarer still that authorities try to crack down on book publishers. Freedom-of-the-press buffs, then, will do well to watch closely as a French publishing house and two Parisian author-journalists grapple the moral questions surrounding their publication of a how-to manual on committing suicide...
Williams, 39, a flamboyant investment adviser and the author of the popular self-help manual How to Prosper in the Coming Good Years, is making his second bid for a Senate seat. He lost the 1978 race to Democrat Max Baucus in a nasty fight. This time the campaign is gentlemanly clean. Williams describes his present opponent as "a good, decent fellow," but suggests he is the captive of special-interest groups. Roughly $350,000 of the $550,000 already in Melcher's war chest comes from outside the state, mostly from 150 political-action committees, prompting some Montanans...
...Insurance Companies, the world's largest insurer of movie productions and the eighth biggest American property and liability underwriter. The brokerage business from its subsidiary Shearson contributed another 20% to earnings. Additional parts of the diversified corporate empire include Mitchell Beazley Ltd., the British publisher of the bestselling manual The Joy of Sex, and half ownership of Warner Amex Cable Communications Inc., which has more than 1 million cable television subscribers in 27 states...
...addition, Adler proposes twelve years of physical education and eight years of manual arts (such as cooking, typing, automobile repair), and at least one year of instruction to help in choosing a career. Paideia thus becomes "the general learning that should be the possession of all human beings...
...Adler, Paideia is a model within reach. He is preparing a manual, to be issued next year, that will help school systems and teachers implement the proposal. One teaching experiment has already been carried out at the Skyline High School in Oakland, Calif. Seventy-five students spent one year studying 50 of Adler's Great Books, using the Socratic method of pedagogy. The results, says Principal Nicholas Caputi, were "stellar," but some 80% of the students were classified as gifted anyway. A fuller test will come in Chicago, where Superintendent Ruth Love plans a pilot school that will give...