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While the nutrition act does not apply to restaurants, where a growing number of Americans are eating many of their meals, some proprietors have jumped on the bandwagon with knife and fork in hand. Jeff Prince, senior director of the National Restaurant Association, says that labeling the menus at table-service restaurants probably will not work in most cases, but 80% of fast-food franchises have begun to provide nutrition information. "The recession has driven a lot of this," Prince explains. "When a significant portion of the population wants ingredient information, that number can make the difference between success...
...Lear (All in the Family, Maude), bills itself as the first sitcom to deal explicitly with religious faith. Lear says the series, his first in seven years, reflects a turn toward spiritual values in his own life. It also marks TV's effort to jump on Hollywood's spirituality bandwagon...
Just two weeks ago, Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf dropped a bombshell when he questioned Bush's decision to keep the war out of Baghdad. Democrats have much to gain from jumping on the "Save the Kurds" bandwagon. Bush's reputation as a foreign policy guru should last about as long as the Kurds did against Saddam's helicopter gunships...
Some studios aren't bothering to jump on the new cost-cutting bandwagon. Columbia Pictures is now shooting Hook, a $50 million-plus Stephen Spielberg extravaganza starring Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams and Julia Roberts. The film's top talent will get a lavish 40% of the gross revenues. To earn a nickel for the studio, Hook will have to become one of the year's highest- grossing films. But the new management team at Columbia, led by Batman producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber, is clearly confident. The company bought two French-made Falcon jets last year, even before...
...activists, on the other hand, are jumping on a bandwagon and celebrating their submission to established authority. "Love for one's country which is not part of one's love of humanity," wrote psychologist Erich Fromm, "is not love, but idolatrous worship...