Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FELT HER back pop as she tried to lift a package in August 1994 from the top shelf of her United Parcel Service truck in Atlanta. Six months earlier, the 85-lb. parcel wouldn't have been there: it was on the truck only because UPS had raised its weight limit on such delivery parcels from 70 lbs. to 150 lbs. in February 1994. Dawson, 37, underwent surgery for a ruptured disk but has been disabled ever since. Today she blames the company for jacking up the weight limit beyond what workers had learned to handle with comfort. "I wouldn...
...weight-limit increase helped boost profits and productivity at UPS, known as Big Brown for its ubiquitous chocolate-colored delivery trucks. With 335,000 employees, UPS is the world's largest package-delivery service (1994 sales: $19.5 billion). It is also known as a hard-driving company with a worker injury rate about 25% higher than the industry average. The privately held Atlanta company enjoys another distinction: it is the No. 1 corporate giver to congressional election races. UPS poured $2.6 million into House and Senate campaigns in 1993 and 1994 and kicked in nearly $500,000 more...
...training goes, weight-lifting, sprinting, long-distance running, plyometrics and sport-specific ball drills are the fundamentals tools in most athletes' off-season arsenal...
Athletes and coaches often break off-season programs into cycles, with the first cycle primarily focusing on developing strength and muscle mass. In the weight room, this translates into lower repetitions and heavier weights. As pre-season approaches, athletes usually focus more on improving their conditioning and doing higher repetitions in the weight room...
...Some people seem to suggest that because Andover is Andover students will just get in because of the name," says C. Joseph McCannon '99, who graduated from Phillips Andover Academy. "The name Andover clearly carries some weight in the admissions office but the students who do come from Andover go through very rigorous preparation and, I think, are all very highly qualified...