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...think Reaganomics was an incredible success. We ought to stand up and be proud of the '80s." --House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Tex), quoted in the New York Times on January...
...truth is that for many Americans, the '80s and '90s have been tough. Malaise. Recession. Unemployment. Double employment. The decline of the family. The rise of aids. The real epidemic, says Dr. Dean Ornish, author of the best-selling Eat More, Weigh Less, is not obesity but what he calls "emotional and spiritual heart disease." "There's been such a radical shift in our culture," he says. "People feel lonely, isolated and alienated...
Nutritionists say it really boils down to this: despite all the fuss about diet and fitness, Americans in the '80s ate too much and exercised too little. In thermodynamic terms, they took in more calories than they burned, and they stored the excess...
...century of labor-saving devices. It pits a frenetic workaday pace against the understandable temptation to put one's feet up at the end of the day, turn on the tube and just veg out. It may even turn out that the best-intentioned resolutions made in the '80s -- to lose weight, to eat "lite," to plunge headlong into heart-pounding aerobics -- ended up doing more harm than good...
...said he sensed "a very real willingness to try to find a way to try to work together." The White House liked much of what Gingrich said. For example, on who could offer the bigger tax cuts: "We cannot have a bidding war. We made that mistake in the '80s. We ought to set a parameter with regards to the tax cut." To Treasury Secretary-designate Bob Rubin, Gingrich said, "We don't want to do anything that hurts us in terms of the markets." The White House took that as a sign the Speaker may be willing to scale...