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...beef ranch in the world is not the King Ranch in Texas. It is the Deseret Cattle & Citrus Ranch outside Orlando, Fla. It covers 312,000 acres; its value as real estate alone is estimated at $858 million. It is owned entirely by the Mormons. The largest producer of nuts in America, AgReserves, Inc., in Salt Lake City, is Mormon-owned. So are the Bonneville International Corp., the country's 14th largest radio chain, and the Beneficial Life Insurance Co., with assets of $1.6 billion. There are richer churches than the one based in Salt Lake City: Roman Catholic holdings...
...Where's the beef?"--now there was a piece of rhetoric. Artful, no. But short, loaded and deadly. Three words, and Gary Hart's vacuous 1984 presidential campaign was forever deflated...
...management is unhappy because sales in U.S. stores have been flat as a frozen beef patty in the past two years and profit margins are eroding. Some of the 2,750 franchisees are unhappy--some downright testy--because rapid store expansion has cannibalized sales and the company's advertising and promotion, although ubiquitous, have been ineffectual. Most recent case: a deep-discount program called Campaign 55 (the company was founded in 1955), which hasn't been a rousing success...
...some academic institutions, talk of raising the number of courses required to graduate would send Faculty into a frenzy to beef up the courses catalog...
Vietnamese cuisine has found its way back into The Garage. Well-received by locals, the restaurant is often packed. Specialities include chicken lemmongrass, beef curry and noodle soups...