Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Texas-Size Losses. Successful is one thing the Star is not. The paper lost $15 million in the four years before Allbritton arrived. It is expected to lose another $8 to $10 million this year, despite an unprecedented agreement last fall by 540 employees to work a four-day week-at a 20% cut in pay-rather than face layoffs. Daily circulation has dropped 3% since Allbritton took over, and recession-hit 1975 advertising revenues are down 11% from last year. According to the purchase agreement, Allbritton can pull out of the deal at any time and get back...
...benefit from their activity, and they recommend daily sessions on the track or a stationary bicycle and regular workouts on a handball or squash court. Morehouse, who developed simple "cabin exercises" for the Navy and the astronauts, offers a "no-sweat" alternative. He believes that people can lose weight and keep it off simply by "saying no to an extra piece of toast in the morning and an extra ounce of Scotch at night." He maintains that people can get into good condition and stay there by exercising as little as 30 minutes a week. "We've confused exercise...
...trimming. To accomplish this, they should first cut 200 calories out of their daily diets. Then they should exercise off 300 calories a day. Over a week, this would result in a "deficit" of 3,500 calories, about the same amount as in a pound of fat. "If you lose more than one pound a week, put it back on," Morehouse advises. "When you start sweating, you're working your body too hard...
Some doctors hospitalize anoretic patients and take away privileges like watching television till they gain weight. But, says Bruch, "they lose it again as soon as they leave." She believes that psychiatric therapy is necessary...
Given the magnitude of the policy reversal, Wilson and Healey had little to lose by compromising on enforcement at this time. The formula saved face for Employment Secretary Michael Foot, the unions' staunchest defender in the Cabinet, who during the last election campaign flatly committed himself to quit if compulsory wage controls were enforced. There were fears that a Foot resignation would trigger the fall of the Wilson Cabinet. Not only would leftist Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn have had little choice but to follow suit; the unions would have withdrawn their support from the government's program...