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Jones' product line has expanded like the chest of an avid body builder. Last year Nautilus began selling machines for the home, priced at $485. He now has 37 different models for fitness centers that go for an average $2,640. Nautilus will launch a line of shoes and exercise wear early next year. But Jones' highest interest lies in medicine, to which he has donated some $11 million for research. Next month doctors and clinics will begin receiving a new computerized Nautilus machine (price: $30,000) that is designed to aid physical therapy by measuring strength...
...Ronald Reagan, the consummate salesman, tax reform promises to be the hardest sell of his presidency. This week he will launch a ballyhooed campaign to convince Congress that political salvation lies in rebuffing the swarms of special interests whose loopholes now ventilate the tax code. His method of persuasion, as ever, will be to preach over the heads of Congressmen to the voters who elect them...
...idea of simplifying the tax code and making it fairer is heartily supported by most of the public; with Reagan set to launch a full-scale crusade, it still has a chance of passage. But as more and more special benefits and complexities are added even before the plan reaches Congress, the original goal seems to be slipping away. As Senator Bill Bradley, sponsor of the Democrats' tax-reform bill, sighed last week, "At some point, if this continues, you have to ask yourself whether the entire exercise is worth...
...find it difficult to perform the ritual of touching his forehead to the floor during prayers. As a "payload specialist" on the next voyage of the space shuttle Discovery, Saudi Prince % Sultan ibn Salman ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud, a nephew of King Fahd's, will help supervise the launch of Arabsat 1B, a communications satellite funded by 22 Arab countries. Says he: "My flight has great significance. More young people in Saudi Arabia will look at the mission and open their eyes to technology and science...
This passionate epistle to President Reagan is one of some 20,000 letters and testimonies collected by a coalition of pro-choice organizations to launch a yearlong campaign titled "Abortion Rights: Silent No More." The National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) led groups like Planned Parenthood, the National Organization for Women, and Catholics for a Free Choice in the campaign, which is designed to counter what they see as the growing tendency of antiabortion advocates to dominate the public debate...