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...full-day schedules. At Le Pli, located by the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Mass., weekend guests stay at the hotel, get a fitness evaluation, nutrition advice, massages, facials and body wraps. Kathleen Keady, 30, a field sales engineer for a high-tech firm, plunked down $950 for one such spree and says it was worth it: "I got discipline from...
...effect is the same as overdrawing a bank account to go on a spending spree. Cocaine blocks the return of the neurotransmitters to the nerve cells for reuse. Eventually the brain is squeezed dry and craves stimulation. Addicts who try to recapture the high by smoking more crack only aggravate the neurochemical deficiency. Says Rosecan: "We think these physical changes correspond to the psychological changes of the crash--depression, irritability, paranoia and craving...
Income from Coca-Cola's entertainment sector reached $161 million last year, a 33% increase over 1984 and equal to about 10% of the company's overall $ 1985 operating income of $1.045 billion. Considering that promising start, no one believes that Coke's Hollywood shopping spree is over. Says Frank Biondi, executive vice president of the company's entertainment division: "We remain, in the vernacular, on the make." Says Disney's Mellon: "Coke wants to take over everybody. The only number they'll be satisfied with...
Many cosmetics firms, including L'Oreal, Revlon and Chanel, are preparing to join the free-sample spree, which is expected to grow from some 250 million strips this year to at least 500 million in 1987. Convinced that the strips will boost sales, industry executives are already planning to offer samples of other makeup products. Expected this summer: lipstick strips...
...northward during the day to escape the winter doldrums and view the pine tree-filled beaches characteristic of the Maine scenery. Others have friends at Bowdoin College, just half an hour up the interstate in Brunswick. Quite a few unite the twin attractions of a road trip and shopping spree...