Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machines, the day begins just before dawn, when much of Milwaukee's human population is still asleep. All night, orders have been flowing to the IBM from Allen-Bradley distributors in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Caracas, - Melbourne and 400 locations in the U.S. From the IBM, they travel silently across hidden cables to Department 260's own network of 29 smaller computers...
...Governor's mansion is silent and mostly dark. It is 5, an hour before dawn, as Mario Cuomo sits alone in the small upstairs study writing longhand entries in his diary. It is a discipline Cuomo has engaged in for almost 15 years. Outside, the streets are empty. His wife Matilda is still asleep nearby, and on the floor above, two of their children, Madeline, 21, and Christopher, 15, have two more hours before they wake...
...skin and spirit at the tip of Long Island. Or the clear desert air of Arizona reinforces the sense of being cleansed. Whatever the surroundings, the wake-up call likely comes at 6 a.m., and after a breakfast that could be served in a thimble and saucer, the hectic dawn-to- dusk pace rivals anything ever dreamed up by a drill sergeant. "By the end of the day," declares Diane Sepler, 46, a Miami interior designer who is a happy devotee of such regimens, "I'm like a noodle...
...schedule is not. As gongs ring to signal new activities, visitors tug at lavender T shirts to get a look at pinned-on paper fans printed with their personal drill. Most get six hours of relentless exercise, beginning with a brisk 1 1/2- to 5 1/2-mile hike at dawn and climaxing in the afternoon with the women's aerobic circuit, WAC in the appropriate acronym. As Offenbach's cancan blares, exercisers WAC out on each of 22 pieces of alternating equipment, moving every 45 seconds from arm weights to a stationary bike to leg presses to the rowing machine...
...circus, its one concession to modernity being polyvinyl rather than canvas. It is a long, low tent sheltering five rings. In the mornings men and elephants erect it, and in the evenings they take it apart. The drill, for 16,000 miles and 20 states, is rise before dawn, drive to the next town, set up, perform, usually at 2 p.m. and again at 8, collapse the tent, sleep, get up, load and drive. The highest-paid acts--whole family troupes that shoulder chores across the board, from flying high to walking nags--get $2,400 a week, in cash...