Word: daunting
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Once older adults are comfortable, the intensity of their workout routines can daunt any 20-year-old. Former Mr. New York City Terry Richardson, 85, who arrives at 4 a.m. for his duties as morning manager for Reebok's Sports Club/LA, works out five times a week with his younger buddy John McManus, 75. Richardson "just" maintains his physique ("My bones and joints are 85, so I try to use common sense," he says) with 20 min. of swimming, some weight training, stretching and 200 ab crunches. McManus, who was back in the gym 15 days after a recent bypass...
Behind the scenes, however, lurks complexity enough to daunt the TF for Math 55. For starters, 423 million gallons of this stuff are sold every day. A typical bottle holds about a quarter of a gallon. That's over a billion coated wrap-around paper labels to buy every morning. The Non-Traditional Purchasing Department does the buying, and they do it very carefully. When millions of dollars move with each font change, after all, the more MBA's the merrier. As Ping put it, "Looking at a bottle, you wouldn't think hundreds of people did months of work...