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Type A has been accepted as a bona fide risk factor for heart disease by the American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Studies have shown that Type A's respond differently to stress than do calmer people classified as Type B's. When Dr. Redford Williams at Duke University asked a group of male undergraduates to perform a mental arithmetic task (serial subtraction of 13 from 7,683), the Type A students produced 40 times as much cortisol and four times as much epinephrine as their Type B classmates. The flow of blood...
Powers said that only union members and officers were "bona fide" represenatives of the union's bargaining group, however...
Under the compromise format, subcommittees of the University and union bargaining groups will meet in a closed session. The subcommittees must be composed of "bona fide" represenatives of the bargaining groups, Powers reported...
...spanking-clean hard hat, electric-blue jumpsuit and unblemished tennis sneakers, he looked more like a catalogue ad for blue-collar chic than a bona fide construction worker. But it turned out that Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, 51, swings a mean pickax. Reproved at a political meeting for junketing about the globe instead of minding the store at home, Young replied: "It would be nice to stay here and fill the potholes. If you find a pothole, see me. I'll fill it up myself." Naturally, the next day, Hizzoner's office received 60 calls. In four scheduled...
...federal authorities are eager to catch bona fide kingpins. "We're not going after the Mexicans standing on the street corner any more," says Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger Markley in Chicago. "We're after the big financiers, because they have the direct routes to the main traffickers." Agrees U.S. Attorney Marcus: "The money trail can lead you to the top. A lot of major dealers do not touch the dope, but they do touch the money. It may be easier to catch them on the money than the dope." Criminal lawyers, naturally, are skeptical, even contemptuous. "They always say they...