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...before taxes. For that reason, McDonald's receives thousands of license applications a year and accepts only about 10% of them. The company gives preference to existing licensees, but values business or professional experience of any kind. Every year large numbers of executives, doctors and lawyers abandon their careers to take up the spatula. (They pretty much have to; Kroc demands that anyone putting up more than half the price of a McDonald's license work full time under the arches...
...with quick, decisive action. He saw that Souvanna was rushed to a secure and secret hiding place. Then Dean sped from one group of generals to another, consulted with the Pathet Lao, and even confronted Ma at the airport. Everywhere his message was the same: the U.S. would not abandon Souvanna and would not support the rebels. Since the Laotian armed forces get all of their equipment and money from the U.S., his message carried weight. The army stayed with Souvanna. The only army losses were the two soldiers who died when their Jeep crashed into a utility pole...
...warnings by Sweezy and Ellsberg are worth taking to heart. They spoke of refusing to take the easy road, of making the hard decision to abandon "success" in favor of conscience. They are also unusual cases, for they came out of it standing up, prominent in their own counter-societies...
...figure in the testimony last week. Dean recalled that White House staffers looked on the Senator as a potential friend. They asked him for a voice in the selection of the committee's minority counsel but were rebuffed. Later, on Feb. 22, he advised Nixon privately to abandon his stand on Executive privilege, at least for the Watergate hearings. On several occasions, Baker had flatly denied that there were any Watergate-related contacts between himself and the President since Feb. 7, when the committee was formed. Later he admitted that he had indeed met with the President and explained...
...CHANGING LIFESTYLES: "We don't want to lose our nerve and give up and say we've come to the point in man's history where we're simply going to have to abandon what we've been doing. If it comes to that, I think we ought to go down trying...