Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...casual look, The Firm was a competent, but fairly routine, on-the-run-pursued-by-nasties page turner. But it stayed on the New York Times best-seller list for an entire year, something accomplished by nothing but Dr. Seuss books and the kind of self-help manual that advises you to Hate Your Way to a Firmer, More Youthful Figure. The explanation -- to the extent that there can be one (after a certain uncritical mass is reached, a best seller best-sells because it is a best seller)--is that the villains were the partners of a rich, greedy...
...They didn't pull the manual level on the ANSUL system and they could have put it out with that," Ridgley said. "They should have done that no matter how huge the fire...
...manual method worked for about a minute until the flames reignited. After three attempts, the staff decided to call the fire department, Leandro said...
...probably be shocked to find this statement anywhere but in a Puritan manual of chastity or a 19th-century psychoanalyst's treatise on the hysterical opposite sex. Certainly no one today would say it openly...
Book that is least likely to attract a pass-along readership: Final Exit, the how-to suicide manual by Derek Humphry...