Most people keep their New Year's resolutions simple: exercise, save money, volunteer.
Peruse the site and you'll find perennial resolutions about exercise and money management, but also gems like "no more dating losers," "quit Dr Pepper" and "speak more slowly to foreigners in New York City".
Many commuters could walk, run, skate or cycle to work in 30 minutes, thus taking the president's advice while saving the time needed for separate exercise and money used for transport.
The interview schedule covered indicators of sports and exercise behaviour, money and time price (travel time), perceived benefits of participation and socio-economic and demographic details.
Airlines call it an "administration charge"; Gulliver calls it a sneaky exercise in money-grabbing.
Or, as Curtis put it, "overachievers who are forever exercising their money and power".
A report in The New York Times today said President Bush hoped to involve President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia more deeply in American missile plans by offering Russia a package of weapons purchases, joint antimissile exercises and money to rebuild its outmoded early warning radar system and a proposal to include Russian S-300 surface-to-air missiles in a new system.
Fondest memory of France The fans from Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Wales, Iceland and Slovakia who revelled in the experience and elevated the tournament beyond the exercise in money-making cynicism that the Uefa machine sometimes threatened to turn it into.
No other financier of modern times has made such abusive use of his money to exercise power; I am tempted to recall the famous saying of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, written for him by Rudyard Kipling-that this is "Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages".
In case you're wondering, no, this wouldn't be an inflationary exercise in printing money.
