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mr. azoff also was eager to return to a more entrepreneurial role in which he had a big financial stake in his own efforts |
in an interview at the time of his resignation from mca he said i 'd rather build a company than run one |
part of a series |
tom <unk> had a perfectly good reason for not using the $ N <unk> machine he bought three years ago |
i <unk> a bad <unk> <unk> got food <unk> and had to have a shot in my shoulder he says making it too painful to row |
the <unk> he admits went away about a week after the shot |
yet the <unk> machine has n't been touched since even though he has moved it across the country with him twice |
a san francisco lawyer mr. <unk> <unk> <unk> when he first got the machine but he complains it left <unk> marks on his carpet and it was boring |
it 's a horrible machine actually |
i 'm <unk> i own the stupid thing |
mr. <unk> has plenty of company |
nearly <unk> of the people who own home exercise equipment do n't use it as much as they planned according to the wall street journal 's american way of buying survey |
the roper organization which conducted the survey said almost half of the exercise equipment owners found it <unk> than they expected |
it is n't just exercise gear that is n't getting a good workout |
the fitness craze itself has gone soft the survey found |
fewer people said they were working up a sweat with such activities as <unk> tennis <unk> and <unk> |
half of those surveyed said they simply walk these days for exercise |
that 's good news for marketers of walking shoes |
the survey also detected a bit more interest in golf a positive sign for country clubs and golf club makers |
the survey 's findings certainly are n't encouraging for marketers of <unk> <unk> tennis <unk> and home exercise equipment but people 's good intentions if not their actions are keeping sales of some fitness products healthy |
for instance sales of <unk> exercise bikes <unk> <unk> and the like are expected to rise N N to about $ N billion this year according to the national sporting goods association which sees the home market as one of the hottest growth areas for the 1990s |
but even that group knows some people do n't use their machines as much as they should |
the first excuse is they do n't have enough time says research director thomas doyle |
the second is they do n't have enough discipline |
with more than N million exercise bikes sold in the past five years he adds a lot of <unk> <unk> and <unk> must be <unk> with them |
still the average price of such bikes rose last year to $ N |
mr. doyle predicts a trend toward fewer pieces of home exercise equipment being sold at higher prices |
electronic <unk> are key |
<unk> international inc. for example <unk> the <unk> electronic cycling <unk> a $ N <unk> cycle |
on a video screen riders can see N different <unk> including urban mountain and desert scenes and check how many <unk> are burned a minute |
nancy <unk> who works in corporate payments at bank of america in san francisco may be a good prospect for such a <unk> |
she 's trying to sell a $ N exercise bike she bought about five years ago for her <unk> |
but rather than write off home fitness equipment she traded up ms. <unk> just paid about $ N for a <unk> <unk> bike with a <unk> <unk> showing average and maximum speeds and a comfortable seat that feels almost like a chair |
i 'm using it a lot she says |
i spent so much money that if i look at it and i 'm not on it i feel guilty |
the poll points up some <unk> between what people say and what they do |
a surprising N N of people said they exercise regularly up from N N in N |
this <unk> up images of a nation full of trim <unk> folks and suggests <unk> potatoes are out of season |
of course that is n't really the case |
the <unk> may be because asking people about their fitness regime is a bit like <unk> about their love life |
they 're bound to <unk> |
people say they <unk> and that may mean they 've been to the beach this year says <unk> spain research specialist for the president 's council on physical fitness and sports |
it 's hard to know if people are responding <unk> |
people are too embarrassed to say they have n't done anything |
while she <unk> the fact that more americans are getting up from the television to <unk> or garden she says the percentage of americans who do real exercise to build the heart is only N N to N N |
so many people <unk> on answers about exercise the president 's council now uses specific criteria to determine what is considered vigorous it must produce <unk> of large muscle groups must achieve N N of maximum <unk> capacity and must be done three or more times a week for a minimum of N minutes |
one of the council 's goals set in N was to see more than N N of adults under N years of age getting vigorous exercise by N |
that target has been revised to N N by the year N |
but even that goal may prove optimistic |
of N activities the journal survey found that N including <unk> skiing and <unk> are being done by fewer americans today than eight years ago |
time pressures and the <unk> of the fitness fad are cited as reasons for the decline |
only walking and golf increased in popularity during the 1980s and only slightly |
<unk> <unk> a california lawyer gave up running three times a week to play a weekly round of golf finding it more social and <unk> |
it 's an activity she feels she can do for life and by pulling a golf <unk> she still gets a good workout |
i 'm really wiped out after walking five hours she says |
most people said they exercise both for health and <unk> |
if you sit down all the time you 'll go stiff says <unk> <unk> a <unk> n.c. <unk> who walks several miles a week |
and it 's <unk> |
sometimes if you have a <unk> you can go out and walk it right off |
only about a quarter of the respondents said they exercise to lose weight |
slightly more like leslie <unk> a law <unk> in san francisco who <unk> dance <unk> five times a week exercise to relieve stress |
working with lawyers she says i need it |
but fully N N of those polled felt they did n't need to belong to a health club |
they 're too crowded and everybody 's showing off says joel bryant a <unk> student from pasadena calif |
the guys are being <unk> and the <unk> are walking around in little things |
they 're not there to work out |
but at least they show up |
nearly half of those who joined health clubs said they did n't use their membership as often as they planned |
feeling they should devote more time to their families or their jobs many <unk> are <unk> their <unk> workout |
even so the association of quality clubs a <unk> trade group in boston says membership revenues will rise about N N this year from last year 's $ N billion |
a spokeswoman adds however that the group is considering offering a <unk> course similar to a <unk> program to teach people ways to stay with it |
there are <unk> bodies of course |
the <unk> of <unk> west an <unk> studio in san francisco 's marina district which was hit hard by the earthquake says people were going <unk> the minute we opened three days after the quake |
the emotional aspect is so <unk> they needed a good workout |
perhaps the most disturbing finding is that the bowling alley may be an endangered american institution |
the survey reported the number of people who said they bowl regularly has fallen to just N N from N N in N |
the american bowling congress claims a higher percentage of the public <unk> regularly but concedes its membership has declined this decade |
to find out why the group recently commissioned a study of the past N years of <unk> research |
three reasons were <unk> a preference for watching bowling and other sports on television rather than actually bowling <unk> bowling centers and <unk> with bowling itself |
people who start bowling expecting it to be a <unk> exercise have been generally disappointed the report said |
but not richard <unk> a san francisco <unk> driver who <unk> in two weekly <unk> |
he hit the <unk> three years ago on the advice of his doctor |
it 's good exercise he says |
i ca n't do anything <unk> but i like meeting the <unk> |
he says bowling helps him shed pounds though that effort is sometimes <unk> by the fact that when i 'm drinking i bowl better |
his tuesday night team the <unk> is in first place |
wpp group 's ogilvy & mather expects profit margins to improve to N N in N in the u.s. |
yesterday 's edition did n't specify where the improvement would take place |
concerning your sept. N article retailers face cutbacks uncertain future the outcome of our leveraged <unk> is looking very positive |
unlike most of the other retailers mentioned in the story <unk> a. bank <unk> inc. is not in serious financial problems |
we did experience some difficulties with the initial lbo terms and as your article made clear successfully restructured our debt earlier this year something those other retailers have yet to accomplish |
your were on target regarding industry problems but wide of the mark in portraying the financial health of this company |
chairman and ceo <unk> a. bank <unk> inc. <unk> mills md |
private housing starts in japan were unchanged in september from a year earlier at N units the construction ministry said |
the flat report followed a <unk> string of declines |
the down trend was partly the result of tighter credit sparked by a discount rate increase by the bank of japan in may |
the central bank also unexpectedly raised the base rate by half a percentage point to N N oct. N as part of an <unk> move that indirectly increases interest rates charged on new home construction loans |
if there 's <unk> strange in your neighborhood |
if there 's something weird and it do n't look good |
who <unk> <unk> <unk> call |
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