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...whines one. The quiet blond in the corner has been here for six months and has lost 100 Ibs. The pounds, sad to say, do not come cheap: Canyon Ranch is not wildly expensive as such spas go, but it still costs about $1,000 a week during the peak season...
...that the company has an office in almost every U.S. city with a population of more than 5,000, Bloch fears that the growth of his tax business may soon peak. As a result, he is moving H&R Block into several new fields. Block's Personnel Pool of America, with some 300 branches nationwide, provides nurses for temporary hospital and home medical care. The company's CompuServe division supplies a variety of computer-based services, including an electronic mail system for businesses. Through a new subsidiary, Block provides management services to a chain of 65 storefront legal...
There is no apparent unifying organization on the Left comparable to the Students for a Democratic Society, which coordinated the efforts of more than 100,000 students at its peak in the late Sixties. Whether one will emerge and survive in this decade is largely a matter of chance and personalities--will the right leaders be in the right places if Reagan blunders into war, for instance. In the meantime, more people probably know more about danger spots like El Salvador in 1982 than they did in 1962, when few could even place Vietnam...
...lack of jubilation is fresh memories of previous false starts in beating inflation. Most notably, as a result of the last deep recession, the inflation rate as measured by the CPI tumbled from 12.2% in 1974 to 4.8% in 1976-only to roar back up to a postwar peak of 13.3% in 1979. And while there is good reason to believe that the gains this time may be more lasting, the cost has proved to be fully as painful as everyone was predicting a year...
Arms procurement is projected to grow 16% annually through 1987, vs. a 14% rate of increase during the peak Viet Nam War years. Injecting all those dollars into defense-related industries could wind up being like installing a turbocharger on the engine of a Model T. Since military spending increases first began to tail off in the 1970s, the industry's infrastructure has seriously eroded. Hundreds of small foundries that made vital metal castings have gone bankrupt or have been forced to close by the Environmental Protection Agency (for excessive dust, smoke and chemical byproducts). Traditional smokestack industries such...