Word: friedman
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...signs are used as "landmarks of sorts," said Holworthy resident Nancy Friedman '89, adding that some people tell their friends to come to the dorm with the sheets draped from the window. "I think they give character," said fellow resident Sharon Murphy...
Many Americans appear to be suffering from the "too" syndrome when it comes to athletic activity. They claim they are too busy, too old, too sick, too tired. Or that exercise is too boring. Steve Friedman, executive producer . of NBC's Today show, is unrepentantly indolent. "I'm one of those who believe people in New York should rent motorcycles to ride to their cars," he proclaims. "I see the joggers out there, in the rain, in the snow, and they all look so unhappy. If I have to do that to live to 80, I'd rather...
...Friedman is in a shrinking minority, however. Judith Langer, whose New York City marketing research firm has studied attitudes toward energetic exercisers, reports, "A few years ago, they may have seemed strange. Now they're respected." Dr. Ronald Mackenzie, medical director for the National Athletic Health Institute in Inglewood, Calif., is also sanguine. He contends that 10% of Americans are highly motivated and exercise consistently. Another 10% refuse to change their sedentary ways. Then there is the vast majority who are trying to improve their health habits but do not feel they are very successful. But, says Mackenzie, "these people...
...Brotherhood of Teamsters and the only major union boss who supported Ronald Reagan's 1980 and 1984 presidential bids. In July the Justice Department decided not to prosecute Presser on charges of paying $274,000 to nonworking "ghost employees" at a Teamsters local in Cleveland. Presser's uncle Allen Friedman went to federal prison for allegedly receiving such illegal payments. Federal District Court Judge Sam Bell granted Friedman a new trial last week on the grounds that U.S. prosecutors failed to disclose Presser's role in the case as an FBI informant. Bell also ordered an investigation of whether...
Matters grew even more complicated last week when officials close to the investigation claimed that the FBI had authorized Presser's payments to Friedman and several other ghost employees at Local 507. Washington sources said the FBI reasoned that the phantom payoffs would make it easier for Presser to gather information on Cleveland's organized crime groups. Questions lingered over how much the FBI had told Justice about Presser's secret dealings. The bureau's Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating agents' handling of the affair...