Word: treads
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...economy is the No. 1 concern in the Second District, where unemployment is approaching 15%. Mississippi is traditionally conservative but aid-hungry; the dichotomy forces both candidates to tread a careful middle course. Franklin says his stands are "pretty tightly aligned with the President's program," though he opposed Reagan's tax increase and concedes that benefits like food stamps are essential for the truly needy in Mississippi. "Maybe I'm different from most who call themselves Republicans around here," he says. "I'm a populist person, I guess." Clark rails against Reaganomics but supports...
Kohl will have to tread cautiously at home. Even before his Bundestag victory last week, West Germany's powerful trade unions had begun girding for conflict with the new Chancellor, who must quickly come to grips with problems of the country's sagging economy. The most sensitive issue is social-welfare spending: at a time when 1.8 million West Germans are unemployed, businessmen are complaining loudly that 70% of their labor costs are for social benefits, the steepest percentage in Western Europe. Says Liane Launhardt, an economist for the Frankfurt-based Commerzbank: "There is no doubt that what...
Where body prophets like Patrice Donnelly dare to tread, ingenious profiteers are sure to follow. The sexy-fit look has generated a booming business. Pop songs like Newton-John's Physical and Diana Ross's Work That Body scampered up the charts. Exercise records have broken out of the vanity-house ghetto: Mickey's Mousercise has sold more than 350,000 copies. New magazines like Fit and New Body are preaching an enlightened narcissism. Fitness gurus, from Richard Simmons to Kathy Smith to that rock-hard perennial Jack LaLanne, start the TV day with exhortations to slim down and tone...
...from the First Lady. As a garment rack was dramatically wheeled out from the wings, Nancy strode onstage-in a veritable riot of pantaloons, yellow rubber boots, an aqua skirt with red and yellow flowers, a feathered boa and a floppy feathered hat. Only the third First Lady to tread the Gridiron boards, but the very first to sing-Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter in years past had danced a few steps-Nancy gave the bandleader a confident nod, then in a clear and courageous voice delivered her own secondhand prose, written for the occasion by Sheila Tate, her press...
School officials stressed yesterday that the move reflects no new tread towards encouraging non-profit work, saying the school has long supported non-profit management...