Word: stepchild
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adios, pilates. Gone are the slow, structured "I doubt I've worked off the calories in a stick of Carefree gum" workouts emphasizing a yoga-based spirituality, and in their place is the latest "it" exercise. Martial artist Billy Blanks created Tae-Bo, the fast-paced, super-sweaty stepchild of kickboxing. Popularized by a sleek advertising campaign heavy on late-night infomercials, and garnering the support of Carmen Electra and Sinbad, Tae-Bo now constitutes a veritable alterna-robics empire. Blanks himself is on the way to superstardom, having appeared on a recent episode of "ER" in which he schooled...
Adios, pilates. Gone are the slow, structured "I doubt I've worked off the calories in a stick of Carefree gum" workouts emphasizing a yoga-based spirituality, and in their place is the latest "it" exercise. Martial artist Billy Blanks created Tae-Bo, the fast-paced, super-sweaty stepchild of kickboxing. Popularized by a sleek advertising campaign heavy on late-night infomercials, and garnering the support of Carmen Electra and Sinbad, Tae-Bo now constitutes a veritable alterna-robics empire. Blanks himself is on the way to superstardom, having appeared on a recent episode of "ER" in which he schooled...
...integrated, with everything from a printing company to a book club. "Other corporations don't view trade publishing as a core business," says Bertelsmann's Peter Olson, 47, who will become chairman and CEO of the new Random House. "We do; we believe in books; they are not a stepchild...
...sure, not all concentrations, and not even some of the largest, are easily pigeon-holed as falling under one of the two broad categories. Economics, for example, seems to be the unwanted stepchild of the Harvard curriculum. Ask a Chemistry concentrator if Economics is a science and you will often get an emphatic no; ask a History and Literature concentrator if it falls under the rubric of the humanities and they too are likely to reply in the negative. Pre-meds who are not also science majors also straddle the dividing line between the two camps. However, they, too, seem...
BORN: May 16, 1945, Buffalo, N.Y. EDUCATION: College of the Holy Cross, B.A., 1967; U of Pittsburgh, M.A., 1970 FAMILY: Wife, Mary; four children, one stepchild RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Investment banker POLITICAL CAREER: Alexandria city council, 1979-84, vice mayor, 1982-84; mayor, 1985-91; U.S. House, 1990- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 2518, Alexandria...