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...right now, it is the foreign residents of the Pacific rim, hundreds every day, who take off?take off and land in L.A. Blithe Angelenos cannot afford to depend on luck and the vague promise of another economic boom, 20 or 40 years hence, to take care of the newcomers and smooth over problems. L.A., nature's charmed city, must begin to look after itself...
...first press conference after his dramatic announcement, White told reporters that the neighborhoods would never have survived without the downtown boom because, he said, 80 percent of all property taxes are paid by office buildings, while the neighborhoods pay a mere 20 percent...
...with a different view of the city than do his would be successors. White, who in 1982 received large contributions from developers, emphasizes three major projects under construction, and the number of hotels recently finished or still under construction. To the visitor, the Hub is nothing if not a boom town...
...relaxation boom has found a warm welcome in America's citadels of stress: large corporations. The reason, experts agree, comes down to the bottom line. By encouraging workers to reduce the strains on their hearts, backs and psyches, corporations can begin to lower the $125 billion or more annually spent on total health care for employees, a figure that has been rising by 15% a year. In addition, Benson points out, many firms are finally beginning to appreciate the long-established fact that too much stress makes workers inefficient. In 1908 Yale Psychologist Robert Yerkes, along with J.D. Dodson...
...relaxation boom spreads, as corporate America learns its mantras and chronic worriers unwind their minds, the point, then, is not to escape the effects of stress, which are inescapable in any case, but to channel and control them. Between the fight-or-flight spasms of too much tension and the dullness and dormancy of too little, the challenge for each person is to find the level of manageable stress that invigorates life instead of ravaging it. -By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Ruth Mehrtens Galvin/Boston and Dick Thompson/ San Francisco