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...year-old male, mostly vegetarian, a non-smoker and only a social drinker. Both my parents, prior to their reaching age 40, suffered from heart ailments and diabetes. I have been practicing yoga and taking a brisk walk five times a week for the past three decades. A few months back, my yearly checkup showed an abnormal stress test [result]. Angiography indicated multiple blocks in my blood vessels, some of them major. The next step was to have heart-bypass surgery. I was shocked and asked my cardiologist how that could happen after I had been taking so much care...
BRAGGING RIGHTS: In a TV first, brisk DVD sales revived his canceled show...
Like many companies, Harley-Davidson started licensing its name partly to protect the reputation of its trademark. Shady operators were doing a brisk business in cheap, phony Harley souvenirs. So now, after a hot day on his Harley-Davidson bike, an easy rider wearing genuine Harley boots and a Harley shirt can reach into his Harley wallet and pull out some money to pay for a Harley-Davidson wine cooler. --By Stephen Koepp. Reported by Wilmer Ames Jr./New York
Skeptics, though, believe that the growth spurt will be temporary. They point out that much of the GNP rise in August and September came from brisk car sales, which jumped ahead because of special low-interest loans offered by the auto companies. After those deals expired, car sales dropped 14.6% in October. Overall consumer spending fell .9% that month, the sharpest decline in 25 years. Unless retailers have a big Christmas, GNP growth may falter again in the fourth quarter. COMPANIES Breaking Up Is Harder...
...last brisk assertions before he died in 1983 at the age of 88, Halas retrieved his old tight end from Tom Landry's coaching staff in Dallas and charged Ditka with restoring a mood. When he was a player, Ditka's style had been to pin teammates on the locker-room wall if they neglected to meet his standards. As a coach, he is hard on the furniture. "When the players walked in the first day," recalls Payton, "Mike was standing there with his arms folded. He nodded to [Assistant] Ted Plumb, who started calling roll. I thought...