Word: relaxing
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...pressures on him, he admits that he does not get to spend enough time with his actress wife Kim. The work "is long and hard and at times gets very tough," he says. So what does the trainer do to relax? When he gets too edgy with his earthbound heavenly bodies, Isaacson, a licensed pilot, sometimes just takes a plane up for a couple of hours of solitary communion with the real stars. --By Anastasia Toufexis. Reported by Michael Riley/Los Angeles
Anyone who is 67 years old and has a personal fortune of more than $150 million has a right to relax. But then, John Johnson is not just anyone. "I run scared," says the wealthiest black businessman in America. "I came from the welfare rolls of Chicago." Still driven by the restless ambition that pulled him out of the ghetto, the chairman of Chicago-based Johnson Publishing, the largest U.S. black-owned company (1984 revenues: $139 million) works twelve-hour days and shows no signs of slacking off. Not content to preside over Ebony and Jet magazines, three radio stations...
Business groups had mixed views about the proposed changes. While companies generally favor efforts to loosen antitrust restrictions, many fear that calls for broad reforms may arouse strong opposition. Some observers were particularly wary of the provision to relax laws to allow mergers of rival firms in distressed industries. Said Joe Sims, a Washington, D.C., antitrust attorney who represents large industrial companies: "It's got to be a real lightning rod. It's going to attract a lot of controversy and criticism...
...afterthought. The Miesian, Eamesian, entirely worthy benchmark Stumpf set for himself years ago was "to make a beautiful chair comfortable." He accomplished that by drawing on more than a decade of careful thought about chairs--not just how they ought to look, but how officeworkers lean and squirm and relax while sitting in them. Stumpf's Ergon (1976) and Equa (1984) are the two most important chairs, surely, of the past quarter-century, handsome, generous and deeply elegant. They are also ubiquitous: the Herman Miller company has sold nearly 2 million Ergons and, in less than two years, some...
...killed in 1981, when his auto was hit by a truck. His widow, Sandy Chapin, was suing the trucking company for $25 million in potential earnings; last week the jury in a Brooklyn, N.Y. federal court awarded her $7.2 million. And what does a musical mogul do to relax from the pressures of all that moneymaking? Rogers has taken up photography. In those quiet darkroom hours, he says, "I think better and resolve problems better." His first book, Kenny Rogers' America, a series of black-and-white landscapes, portraits and buildings taken while touring, was published last week. Rogers...