Word: regimens
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...sound like a somewhat heavy-handed lampoon of the American health- care system -- bad Joseph Heller, say. It gets worse. If Murphy is furloughed for the prolonged pre-transplant regimen, afterward he would return to prison. Would he be furloughed promptly again if a heart became available unexpectedly, as donor hearts are wont to do? The Bureau of Prisons says he would be. Murphy has his doubts. Doctors see a logistical snarl that could hopelessly compromise the success of the transplant. The authorities shrug. "The Bureau of Prisons doesn't have a hang-up," explains Robert McFadden, executive assistant...
...matter how poor the skater, paying the bills is easy compared with following the training regimen. Roughly four hours on the ice, five or six days a week (a slight reduction from the old days). And corner cutters might as well not bother. Says coach Carlo Fassi, who trained Peggy Fleming, among others: "If you stop for two or three weeks, it's grueling to get into shape again." Then comes weight training to strengthen the upper body. Finally, there are ballet or jazz classes. Scott Davis, 21, rebelled against these extra lessons until his Colorado Springs-based coach, Kathy...
While Prudential neither admitted nor denied that it broke the law, its arrangement with the SEC commits it to a punishing regimen of repayment of losses that the agency says Prudential Bache foisted on its customers. (Pru Bache is the old name for the securities unit of Prudential Insurance.) The deals involved more than 700 partnerships ranging from energy exploration to commercial real estate, ventures that normally attract sophisticated, high- income investors...
...course some Americans came to this conclusion well before last week's pronouncement from Washington. Gwen Grayson, a 34-year-old jewelry saleswoman from Dallas, used to hit the gym two hours a day for the weights and the aerobics, as if this regimen were a surefire lock on immortality. Now she has cut back to three workouts a week. Her conclusion: "Mental health suffers when you're in an obsessed state of mind...
...large majority of Type I diabetics who can carefully control sugar levels, the rewards will be well worth the bother. Says Tom Boyer of Washington, who has been on the strict regimen for several years: "The better you take care of yourself, the better you'll be down the road...