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...fitness-conscious, alcohol has joined sodium and cholesterol as a substance devoutly to be avoided. The active ingredient in alcohol is ethanol, a depressant closely akin to ether. It dulls perceptions, slows reactions and contains "empty" carbohydrate calories, that is, with no nutritional value. It also relieves stress by releasing endorphins, chemicals that calm the nervous system. Many people drink to relieve stress, says John Bagshaw, a University of California associate professor of medicine, but they often cut down consumption or quit entirely when they begin an exercise program. Reason: the endorphins released by a workout preclude the need...
Inside Chrysler, not surprisingly, the Iacocca legend has held sway for some time. He is adored by the 3,984 dealers, high-torque salespeople more temperamentally akin to Iacocca than many of his executive-suite colleagues. "Dealer meetings are particularly difficult," says Chrysler Public Affairs Vice President James Tolley. "We have to have security people to keep the dealers off him." Among Chrysler blue-collar employees, the admiration often seems more like a kind of fealty than mere employee loyalty. "I owe it all to Iacocca," says Sarah Haynes, a Chrysler assembly-line worker now back at work after...
...Britain, Lange raised the temperature even higher, denouncing U.S. tactics as akin to "totalitarianism" and claiming that the U.S. was trying to force his Labor Party from power...
Secondly, this tough autonomy becomes alarmingly akin to what is conventionally defined as masculine. It is unclear whether Shainess wishes to help women to become less masochistic or to become men. In the conclusion of her book she describes several famous women who may meet the standards of non-masochistic behavior. The ideal, apparently, is Golda Meir...
Pickens was also devising the tactics that today make his raids akin to a declaration of war. Mesa analysts first study a prospective target in minute detail. "By the time my guys get through with the numbers," Pickens says, "we know those companies better than they know themselves." The team spends months sifting reams of public documents, including the annual reports and other resources kept in Mesa's extensive library of the U.S. petroleum industry. The researchers focus on a firm's domestic oil and gas reserves and feed their data, along with such matters as projected interest rates...