Word: gainful
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...frame. He and his managers spent weeks debating how to solve the problem, with no results. Then, says Yu, "I woke up one morning, looked in the bathroom mirror, and realized 'That's it!'" He simply installed a row of mirrors above part of the assembly line to gain a better view of the car's innards...
...They are in a Catch-22 position when they say they won't talk until the unrest has been quelled. The unrest is not going to be quelled because apartheid is there. Botha has everything to gain from talking to blacks, because he could be saying to the world, "Look, I'm talking to these horrible people who are always criticizing me and who are anti-South African." The world would say, "Yes, Botha is reasonable, he does talk to his critics." We would have lost. I would be losing out too, because even to say I am willing...
Only last June TWA's board tentatively accepted a $23-a-share takeover bid from Lorenzo to escape a previous $18-a-share offer by Icahn. In fact, TWA President Carl Meyer openly courted Lorenzo, fearing that Icahn might dismantle the company and sell its pieces for quick gain. After the TWA-Lorenzo deal, Wall Street expected Icahn to cash in his 35% stake and reap an estimated $50 million profit...
...that people in their 20s should weigh less than Metropolitan Life indicates, 40-year-olds should weigh about the same, but people in their 50s and 60s can afford to be anywhere from 4 to 37 Ibs. heavier. Andres, a gerontologist who has been studying the effect of weight gain on aging for more than five years, feels that after the age of 20, almost any normally lean person can put on about a pound a year...
...Andres study not only challenges the conventional wisdom, it says that men and women of the same height should weigh roughly the same. This relaxed attitude toward weight gain does not find favor with the medical establishment. The American Heart Association has stated that it finds even the 1983 Metropolitan Life table too lenient. Obesity researchers at the National Institutes of Health say that weights 20% higher than the Metropolitan midpoints are hazardous. Says Dr. Robert F. Kushner, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago: "We don't have anything to gain health-wise by allowing elderly patients...