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...would not be campaigning as energetically for Democratic congressional candidates as he would for his own re-election: "The American people don't think it's the President's business to tell them what ought to happen in the congressional elections." But after Ron Wyden gave Democracts the biggest lift they've had in two years, Clinton's spokesman Mike McCurry put the President back in the fray. "He will campaign early and often with Democratic candidates and he's going to elect a whole bunch of them," said McCurry. "He might even elect a majority in the Congress." Says...
KAREN DAWSON FELT HER back pop as she tried to lift a package in August 1994 from the top shelf of her United Parcel Service truck in Atlanta. Six months earlier, the 85-lb. parcel wouldn't have been there: it was on the truck only because UPS had raised its weight limit on such delivery parcels from 70 lbs. to 150 lbs. in February 1994. Dawson, 37, underwent surgery for a ruptured disk but has been disabled ever since. Today she blames the company for jacking up the weight limit beyond what workers had learned to handle with comfort...
...that was then, and this is now. American snowboarding participants have quadrupled in the past four years from 500,000 to two million, and they currently account for 12.7% of all lift tickets. Because the number of skiers has declined in recent years, the snowball effect of boarders has come as welcome news to both ski resorts and manufacturers...
...winter we lift weights a lot, we [row on an ergometer] a lot, and we row in the tanks [indoor rowing facilities]," Donaldson says. "As the winter progresses we shift to lifting more reps and lower weights so [training] is more like a race...
...GINGRICH HAS A BANANA AND an unbuttered bagel for breakfast, and his lunch typically reflects his fortunes--on a good day he sticks with vegetables, and when he needs a lift, he eats cheeseburgers, Fritos and frozen yogurt. Such an eating program could create a certain chemical imbalance in the brain. Newtie, get your eating habits cleaned up, and who knows? Your brilliance might find an unaccustomed companion, some honest-to-goodness common sense. BARBARA POTTS New York City...