Word: walks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really hot out there," Delmont said."It got tough in the middle [and] I had to walk ahalf-mile in Newton. In short, I kind of got myass kicked by the course, but I was happy tofinish...
...doing well, I wasn't tired, but at mile17 my knees collapsed, and I had to walk the lastfive miles," Rosen said...
Take a 28-year-old worker, for example, who's making about $34,000 a year. Under a hypothetical cash-balance plan, he could walk away after only five or six years on the job with close to $10,000 in pension benefits, as opposed to a measly $1,200 in a traditional plan, according to the Society of Actuaries. Under the same cash-balance plan, a 50-year-old earning about $57,000 a year, with just over 20 years of service, would already have a $69,000 nest egg, more than double the value of a traditional pension...
...product placements in textbooks do seem innocent of any overt commercial intent. Still, if you think Toys "R" Us and MTV are the only places where kids are being trained as consumers, take a walk through any elementary school or high school. Those splashy book covers? Chances are they're distributed by Cover Concepts, a company that sells advertising space on book covers to companies like Nestle and Calvin Klein. That new weight-lifting machine? The school may participate in any of the incentive programs run by General Mills, Campbell's soup or AT&T. Schools earn points for every...
...loss of Johnson & Johnson as a $30 million sponsor of the Salt Lake City Olympics is a warning sign that the cozy relationship between big business and the Olympics could be in trouble. The pharmaceutical company becomes the first major sponsor to walk away from the event in the wake of the bribery scandal. "This is a very serious development," says TIME senior editor Bill Saporito. "It signals that some corporations will not fall over themselves to support what is perceived to be a corrupt organization...