Word: ouellet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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YMCA officials dismiss charges that they are crowding private gyms. Commercial operators, says John Ouellet, president of the Los Angeles YMCA, would no doubt prefer the Y to "put up a building as dilapidated as the one we tore down." When private clubs fail, he contends, the reason is often poor management, not competition from a well-equipped Y. If anyone is encroaching, say YMCA officials, it is the private operators. The Y has been touting fitness for more than a century. Declares Thomas Hargrave Jr., president of the Washington YMCA: "We started the health-and-fitness business...