Word: self-help
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...bookseller at Harvard Bookstore on Mass Ave says that the store has shown a marked increase over the last year in the sale of sex books, like "Woman's Orgasm," by Georgia Kline-Graber and Benjamin Graber. The cover describes the book as "an amazingly easy and successful self-help program developed by a doctor-nurse sex-therapist team...
...Hume emerged as a Londonderry community leader, founding the island's first self-help credit collective for Derry Catholics, "to help them to help themselves." The collective, which started with a five-pound investment, quickly blossomed into the still-powerful Credit Union Movement of Ireland. Hume served as president of the movement from...
...fluffed nary a line, bantered easily with Reasoner, and put even more bite into her interviews than she did on NBC's Today show-but in her format. ABC's half-hour newscast was restyled to include Walters' interviews, unscripted dialogue and features on such self-help topics as health, psychology and personal finance. As a result, there has been less room for news. Reports from correspondents in the field, for instance, dropped to 140 in the first month of Walters' tenure, from 168 the month before. ABC had been planning to alleviate the space problem...
...King School, a handsome building on a grassy lot, has always looked like an inner-city oasis. But eight years ago, its quality of education was abysmal. Staff turnover and student absentee rates were high, and fights were commonplace in the halls. Today, thanks to a research program of self-help supported by the Ford Foundation, the Yale Child Study Center and the National Institute of Mental Health, the quality is not only good but superior. All pupils who have been in the school for two years are up to grade level, there has not been a major behavioral problem...
...with several ABC correspondents. She spoke to all of them over a 24-in. television screen on the show's aseptic-looking silvery gray set. Walters also introduced a somewhat stagy filmed report on how to locate runaway fathers, part of the show's new emphasis on self-help information, and she managed some chitchat with Partner Harry Reasoner...