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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...benefits of stair climbing first gained attention in 1968, when fitness guru Dr. Kenneth Cooper promoted aerobic exercise as a good way to strengthen muscles and build endurance. Interest swelled in 1977, when a study showed that men who climbed more than five flights a day had 25% fewer heart attacks than those who stuck to elevators and escalators. But most people found it inconvenient or boring to climb stairs regularly. Many lived in ranch-style houses, and high-rise-apartment dwellers were leery of trudging up and down deserted stairwells...
...early weeks of the offensive raised unrealistic expectations that the drug empires could be quickly crushed. Jungle labs were torched, properties and chemicals seized, and some 11,000 people detained. Today, with the war continuing but with fewer spectacular results to show for its efforts, the Barco administration is having a harder time making its case that the struggle is worthwhile. Meanwhile, the drug Mafia has struck back with more than 200 bombings and singled out and killed at least 13 officials. By the standards of civil war, the DAS headquarters would qualify as a military target and therefore part...
...checks or credit cards can be an ideal laundering machine. Even a front business with no exemption is valuable because launderers can file the CTRs in the knowledge that they are unlikely to attract scrutiny, since the Government is swamped with 7 million such reports a year, up from fewer than 100,000 a decade ago. Other places where drug dealers can often dump their cash include the currency exchange houses along the Southwest border and urban check- cashing and money-transmittal stores...
...sense this is good. (And of course it's very good if you don't yet own a house.) In the U.S., we need to invest relatively less on expanding our living space and more on retooling our factories. We need fewer real estate agents and more teachers, fewer mortgage brokers and more engineers. So if people get the notion they'll make more money investing in stocks and bonds than in homes -- good! To succeed long-term, we need to save a little more and consume a little less...
Homes can still be a good investment -- much of my own money is in real estate, and so is much of the money of most of the successful stockbrokers I know (they sell stocks; they buy real estate). Even if there are fewer baby boomers entering the new-home market, the population continues to grow, and as it becomes wealthier, it will want more living space. So don't buy the new conventional wisdom unreservedly. But even in Los Angeles, where the whole point is to spend more than you can afford, rising values are no longer a given...