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Besides forcing their bodies to perform beyond their capabilities, many people have the Spartan belief that exercise will do no good unless it is pursued until the body aches. Says Gilbert Gleim of Lenox Hill Hospital's Institute of Sports Medicine in Manhattan: "If you're training to be healthy, exercise should never hurt." A few simple precautions, sports specialists point out, can prevent many injuries. Choose an appropriate sport for your weight and body build and always do warming-up and cooling-down exercises...
...issues from the outset of his quest for the presidency more than 15 years ago have been the need to establish a Spartan attitude toward domestic concerns and a tough posture towards the outside world; and analytical search for enlightened solutions has never marked the former California Governor's policymaking. The supply-side rhetoric of 1980, along with his proclamation of a new mandate for governing America, were supposed themselves to be solutions for the grave social problems facing the nation. A word from the people, a word from the President, and the final O.K. from Wall Street were...
...because in Britain, the literary tradition of politics lives on. Politicians there, for the most part, are less afraid of high-minded language and ideas than are America's. The walls of Parliament resound with far more allusions to history, literature, or poetry than do Congress'. Margaret Thatcher's Spartan approach to national economics may have failed dismally, but at least she can intelligently argue her points and explain her intent. Ask America's leader to account for Reaganomics, and you'll get the usual drivel about free trade, unleashed American industry, and the sanctity of the unencumbered market...
Little is known about Hu's family, even in China. He is believed to be married and to have three grownup children, all of whom are said to live the same kind of spartan life that he has led for years. -By Patricia Blake. Reported by Edwin M. Reingold/Peking and Bing W. Wong/Hong Kong
...reclusive man who for years paid himself the spartan salary of $10,000. Yet Juan Terry Trippe, the patriarch of Pan American World Airways, was also quite a gambler. He pushed Pan Am into the jet age and in 1966, foreseeing a market for jumbo planes capable of carrying nearly 500 passengers across a continent or an ocean, sealed a $ 150 million deal for six Boeing 747s with a handshake...