Word: ralph
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...billion every year because of employee health problems. Companies find that fitness programs more than pay for themselves in reduced absenteeism, disability and lateness, and in greater productivity. Besides, medical evidence linking regular exercise and a healthy heart is growing. Last year, for instance, Stanford University's Dr. Ralph Paffenbarger Jr. found that of 17,000 Harvard graduates he observed over 15 years, those who swam, ran and otherwise regularly engaged in vigorous exercise, suffered fewer heart attacks than those...
...Ralph Freedman; Pantheon;432 pages...
...Ralph Freedman, a native of Germany who teaches comparative literature at Princeton, gives the author a fair and thorough hearing; his admiration for Hesse does not prevent his seeing clearly what an absurd and depressing character he could sometimes be. Freedman takes Hesse far too seriously, but perhaps any biographer is bound to, for Hesse was himself a painfully humorless...
...certain, lay in Midwestern values, rock-ribbed Republicanism and college football. Just as surely, permissiveness led to social cataclysm, liberalism to national weakness. He built his personal philosophy on the lessons of war and football, and he saw numerous parallels between the two. His heroes were Abraham Lincoln, Ralph Waldo Emerson and, naturally, General George Patton. "This whole country," the coach liked to say, "has been built on one thing-winning...
...eventually fell just 236 votes short of ousting him from office. His administration, staffed primarily by unusually young and inexperienced supporters whom the Cleveland business establishment and press continually charged with ineptitude and hostility, had to deal with the incomprehensible financial records left by the previous administration of Republican Ralph J. Perk. Then on Dec. 16, Kucinich's refusal to make political compromises and devise a financial package that the banks would accept plunged the city into default...