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...important "it" is his exercise routine. The 6-ft. 6-in., 210-lb. Governor makes three trips a week to the Nautilus health club in Springfield, Ill., to pump iron, jog, and work out on elaborate stretching machines. Says he: "This job is a man killer. You can absorb only so many budgets, meetings and job seekers without saying 'I've got to do something where I don't have to think.' " But after an hour in the gym, he insists, he can "go back to work in the evening and tackle three more hours...
Smith said she first started her work in 1976, but had to begin again in January after a fire destroyed her records last December. Although she received a $10,000 advance from her publishers, Smith said she had to absorb most of the financial loss from the fire herself...
...Harvard becomes "a school which caters to the rich, it will lose diversity that can't be measured in economic terms," Downer said, adding that his own family is in a high enough income bracket to absorb the increase...
...rising costs "disgust me," James S. Barlow '79, said yesterday. Barlow said he worries about next year when his younger brother enters Harvard. Paying for both students will absorb about half the family's income unless they qualify for financial aid, Barlow said...
...steals bits of his opponents' costumes in order to upset their concentration before they go on-stage to face the judges. Katz's musculature may, on one level, set him irrevocably apart from the rest of us, but his sweet sporting spirit as he sits trying to absorb his defeat while graciously applauding a trickster's win is something with which any weekend athlete who has been one-upped by an allegedly friendly opponent can identify...