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...Call it the Jane Fonda school of economics: no pain, no gain. As in any good workout, the stretching of the euro has forced flabby European companies to become fitter. Since the rising euro means euro-zone goods sold abroad cost more, competitiveness has taken a blow, but not a brutal one. In Germany, for example, overall competitiveness has declined by only about 6% - far less than the dollar's depreciation - according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. How come? For one thing, Germany and the other 11 euro-zone nations now have a much bigger...
...Santa sets up shop at Radio City and department stores unfurl their holiday finery. But to Delia Everett, November meant a chilly wait for the 6:45 a.m. bus to her Manhattan job as an executive assistant. To her husband Jim, who had lost his job as a steam fitter, it meant fixing heaters and patching plumbing in their Mahwah, N.J., apartment building, where he worked as assistant super to cover the rent. To their two children, it meant gray afternoons watching TV in their two-bedroom, ground-floor apartment...
...home for the start of summer—my mother, in her less-than-subtle manner, practically shamed me into my health club membership. After one summer back at home with Mom, whose zeal for raising our family on a fruit-and-vegetable-filled diet is notorious, I was fitter than ever. Still not the slimmest of students, I could confidently assert that my body mass index stood healthily under 25. I worked out regularly and ate a colorful and nutritious diet. I was a pretty healthy girl. And I was damn proud...
...think we’re fitter and more powerful because of the extra work indoors,” McDaniel said...
Rachel Dry, FM chair and observer: It was pretty funny how Summers, a middle-aged man, looked so much sharper, fitter and better than the 20-year-olds. Apparently he’d just been to tennis camp. The only camp Mathis had spent any time at recently was, I don’t know, Camp 16-Ounce Budweiser. He didn’t shave, and I’m not even going to mention the sweat. Wasserstein’s socks didn’t match, and I think his collared shirt was child-sized. Also, I don?...