Word: regular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coincidence, Associate Editor B.J. Phillips, who wrote the cover, is a woman. She is also our regular sportswriter and a diehard baseball fan who spent a Southern small-town childhood hoping to make the major leagues. She did enjoy a brief career on the sandlot, but when at 14 she came home bleeding from a spike wound, her mother took a hard stand. Says Phillips: "That's when I became a proper young lady...
Then there is the canard that a woman's menstrual cycle inhibits peak performance. World and Olympic records, however, have been set by women who were having their periods. Nor does exertion disrupt the cycle for most women athletes. Says one world-class runner: "I'm so regular, it's ridiculous." However, some women undergoing hard training do stop menstruating for months at a time. This cessation of the cycle, called amenorrhea, occurs in about 45% of women who run over 65 miles a week-as well as in dancers, ice skaters and gymnasts. Many experts link...
...warm weather does make us ease up a little, as we shift from a daily to a twice-weekly publication schedule for the vacation months. But because most of the regular staff clears out for home after examination period, the skeleton crew that stays behind has to work that much harder to keep the presses rolling...
...that year, during which he and his sister kept $100 per month for themselves ("Why take more?" Han asks. "Our apartment costs only $85 a month"), he had made a $10,000 profit. Next week he will rebate all of it to his 2,000 regular customers, of whose spending he kept account, at a rate of 30%. One customer, who spent $1,000 at WE, will thus receive $300 in cash; the city of Pontiac, which had him cater two parties, will...
...longer, no doubt, to lure back the European specialists needed to help run them. Most of the city's 2,250 whites had been airlifted to safety in Belgium as legionnaires liberated the city. A dozen staff members of the huge Gécamines copper complex returned to hold their regular monthly payday for 13,000 African employees, though not much work was being done. At the main cobalt plant in Kolwezi, only two senior white managers were left. Said Director Jean van Pottelsberghe: "Two are enough for a couple of months. But for a year...