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Company fitness programs range from simply subsidizing employee membership in the local Y.M.C.A. to constructing elaborate exercise centers. The Mitre Corp., a nonprofit engineering firm, sank $10,000 into equipping the basement of its Bedford, Mass., headquarters with showers, lockers, rowing machines and weight-lifting gadgets. Xerox Corp. runs seven exercise centers; the most lavish overlooks the Potomac River at the company's International Center for Training and Management in Leesburg, Va. The $3.5 million facility includes a putting green, a soccer field, a swimming pool, two gyms, four tennis courts, two racketball courts, a weight-lifting room...
...course, not every employee is thrilled at spending the lunch hour sweating and straining, even at company expense. Only a fraction of eligible employees take advantage of the programs. Xerox's Leesburg facility is used by barely a third of the 180,000 people who yearly train at the center. New York's Cardio-Fitness reports a 15% dropout rate. Says one former client: "I find it mind-bendingly boring. I hate taking another shower and then putting on sweaty underwear. I hate spending an hour of my time jumping around over there...
...most participants, however, a corporate fitness program is the hottest perk since the executive washroom. "I feel better and it helps my whole attitude," says Mort Roman, a manager for Atlantic Richfield in Los Angeles. Vance Foreman, chief engineer at Xerox, credits his firm's plan with cutting his hypertension medication from three pills a day to one. Says he: "Before I'd change jobs, I'd ask an employer...
...size of some cases. "How much can you narrow the issues when the question is, 'Did a two-decade course of conduct in an industry amount to willful monopolization?' " asks Judge Jon O. Newman, who presided over the SCM Corp.'s $1.5 billion antitrust suit against Xerox. Pretrial discovery took 3½ years ("Not bad, considering," says Newman), during which the judge had to write 46 separate opinions on procedural motions alone; such motions can be another delaying tactic that, in the words of Miller, is "limited only by a lawyer's demonic imagination." When...
...from South Africa are largely ignored. The United Nations Center Against Aparthied publishes about 30 informative pamphlets a year. Mr. Stevens is aware of this source, but the only U.N. Center Against Apartheid pamphlet ACSR members saw last year was one I brought in myself for Mr. Stevens to xerox (an accepted practice on the ACSR). It took about three weeks and a threat to make an issue out of the problem in The Crimson before Stevens distributed the pamphlet, which contained rather shocking statistics comparing infant mortality and deaths from preventable and curable diseases between black and white South...