Word: bested
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...squash's battle of the best, Harvard's four top women players shook hands with dissappointment this weekend...
Codependent no more, the best-selling author who inspired a movement is getting better all the time...
...Earlier best sellers like Robin Norwood's Women Who Love Too Much and Janet Woititz's Adult Children of Alcoholics primed readers for Beattie's message, which has a special resonance for women who often feel like powerless victims, nurturing everyone but themselves. Beattie offers a list of more than 200 codependent tendencies. The sufferers "feel anxiety, pity and guilt when other people have a problem" and "overcommit themselves." In the book portion titled "The Basics of Self-Care," Beattie suggests that her readers should "feel your own feelings" and "have a love affair with yourself...
Beattie understands being overboard, which helps her throw best-selling lifelines to those still adrift...
Encyclopedias, according to the encyclopedia, are books containing basic knowledge in all areas of life. Many publications have answered that description in their time, from the medieval compendiums to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, first published in 1768, to three contemporary one-volume works. Which one of that trio is best? It depends on the size of the reader's requirements, bank account and bookshelf...