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Take prices. For the past 18 months, the company has been raising some prices selectively, and consumers have begun to stray. "Comp sales," an internal company statistic that tracks performance in existing stores, turned negative for six consecutive quarters through the third quarter of 1996, an unheard-of reversal for a company that lives on growth. Greenberg had to improve McDonald's value equation fast. "The question is, What do you do about that? Lower prices a couple of cents on everything, or go on TV and talk about 55[cent] meals?" He called the media department...
...theatrical sigh he heaved before signing was not entirely playacting. The fact is that Russia can consult with a growing NATO, but Russia is left out. So are several other countries in Eastern and Central Europe, including the Baltics, that desperately want to get in. NATO members themselves have begun squabbling about which former Warsaw Pact countries will be invited to join and who will pay the costs; the estimate, still only hazy, and probably too low, is about $35 billion over 10 years...
Since its inception in 1927, reading period has stood for more than somber study and tradition. As Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III notes, the system of a one week study period preceding exams was begun at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and later adopted by Harvard...
Still the Crimson headed into its exam period with a squad which had only begun to gel into a cohesive unit...
Wrestling has never been one of Harvard's more glamorous sports. While the campus impression of the sport may not change any time in the near future, the Harvard wrestling team has begun to raise some eyebrows nationwide...