Word: self-help
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...easy enough to laugh off such attempts to begin to recapture control of our lives. There is something pathetic in such rudimentary lessons in self-survival. But once you really get into tie-dying jeans and whipping up oatmeal facials, you probably do discover a measure of self-reliance that simply can't be equated with getting through to the Esquire Buying Guide toll-free exchange. In any case, its self-help orientation is really Rags's strongest selling point. The Washington Post's Nicholas Von Hoffman even devoted an entire column to describing Rags as symptomatic of the rise...
...similar to the isolation cell block currently under construction as a self-help project...
...robbery of a gas station - 7½ years of that time in solitary confinement. Though eligible for parole after his first six months, he has been repeatedly turned down, and continues to promote black rage and militancy among inmates. His own rage has gone partly into self-help training: 1,000 push-ups a day, heavy reading, and the writing of letters so striking that they have recently been published in a book, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. He now sits in San Quentin's maximum-security wing, awaiting trial on new charges of murdering...
This "best-guess" estimate was made by Humphrey Doermann, assistant to the dean for financial affairs. Among the assumptions he tentatively used are the following: on the income side, a $200 increase in tuition again with requisite increases in fellowships, except that students would be required to increase their self-help by $100 in the undergraduate scholarship budgets. No change in the composition of the entering classes is contemplated; 530 students in each class in the past three years have received some scholarship aid. All the income of the Harvard College Fund would again be available aside from reunion class...
...been reduced to as low as 30. With U.S. aid, Danang will soon receive a 2,000,000-gallon-capacity water-purification plant. In Saigon, 29 public health clinics have been established. Insecticide spraying is now widespread. The U.S.-run Saigon Civil Assistance Group (SCAG) is encouraging neighborhood self-help projects to increase civic awareness...