Word: self-help
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...turn to a life of bank robbery or kidnapping); our heroine won't be left, at the end of the film, with no one to dance with but her gay best friend; and, perhaps more significantly, the fated lovers won't ever turn up earnestly poring through self-help books trying to save the imperfect relationships they are in already...
Whatever method you decide to use, the two most important keys to success are good social support from family and friends or a self-help group like Nicotine Anonymous, and something the experts call skills training. That means having a plan ahead of time for how you're going to cope with stress, the No. 1 obstacle to kicking the habit. The favored techniques include exercise, meditation, counting to 10 while slowly exhaling, and practicing saying "no, thank you" when offered a cigarette...
...leader, definer, advocate, etc., Gingrich developed a series of ideas as large as his ambitions. His thinking was thoroughly schematic--in the manner, for example, of self-help books like Stephen Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, in which the banalities are broken down and presented as "steps" and "affirmations" and hence made easily digestible to the hungry hordes. Such books, in fact, seemed to be Gingrich's main source of inspiration as a thinker. He was mad for lists and jargon. In speeches and seminars he spoke of the triangle of American progress, the nine zones...
Every undergraduate financial aid package begins with self-help requirements--from $6,850 to 7,900 in loans and work-study per year. This number assumes that a student has no outside scholarships, which will be subtracted out of self-help requirements under the new aid plan. About $2,000 of this self-help is accounted for by a term-time job. That leaves $5,000 to 6,000 annually in student loans...
...other half of self-help is a term-time job.About two-thirds of Harvard students with jobs aresupported by federal work-study funds. Thefinancial aid office says most students work eightto 12 hours per week to meet their $2,000commitment...