Word: processing
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...Yoga is excellent for purging stress from the mind and the body, but it's also outstanding on a physical level," says Stryker, 41, who plans to make yoga videos with Tiegs. "Few forms of exercise benefit the whole body the way yoga does. It slows down the aging process by increasing breathing capacity and improving the range of motion for muscles and joints." Not only does it increase flexibility, it also improves balance and strengthens muscles--all helpful in preventing falls. That's important, because for brittle-boned seniors, tumbles often result in hip fractures and a subsequent downward...
...aging boomer clients who grunted their way through the no-pain-no-gain workouts of the '80s are turning to the regimen as welcome therapy. Anderson has observed, for example, that knee muscles out of whack because of a trauma experienced years earlier "can be retrained and the process of degeneration significantly decreased...
That's when the process began by which the fairy tale turned into a very bad dream. Just four years later, in 1994, Seaboard phased out the plant and moved its hog-slaughtering operations to another town 800 miles away, which came up with an even larger corporate-welfare package. Albert Lea was left saddled with debt, higher utility bills and an abandoned slaughterhouse. The entire episode, says City Manager Paul Sparks, was a "disaster...
That was in August 1992. Seventeen months later, in January 1994, Seaboard announced that it would shutter its hog-slaughtering operations and lay off upwards of 600 employees. The company said it would keep about 300 workers to process and produce ready-to-buy meats like bacon, sausage and ham. (The number of employees eventually dropped to about 200, and Seaboard sold the business...
...million that state and local governments put up to bring Seaboard to the Panhandle was just the start. Guymon, like Albert Lea, couldn't supply the work force required by Seaboard. In time the company would need workers by the thousands. That's because the turnover rate in all processing plants runs close to 100% a year owing to the low wages. This slaughterhouse, one of the world's largest, will eventually kill an average of eight hogs a minute, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year--more than 4 million annually. So Seaboard repeated the Albert Lea hiring...