Word: belle
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Spicy Mexican foods normally stimulate the taste buds, seldom controversy. But a television advertisement for Taco Bell's saucy new Wild Burrito caused more excitement in the African-American community than the company intended. The spot featured dark-skinned island "natives" with painted faces, dancing in loincloths, flames belching from their mouths. African Americans immediately attacked Taco Bell's attempt at multicultural advertising. Oakland city council official Fred Ferguson described it as "plain and simple racist." The ad was withdrawn...
ASAHI SHIMBUN, JAPAN: "The passage of NAFTA . . . should be perceived as a warning bell to Japan, demanding an independent effort to save the world's free trade...
...telephone systems will surely multiply the confusion. By the year 2000, consumers will be able to choose from at least half a dozen vendors of a dizzying array of wireless-communications services, including pagers, voice mail, answering machines and cellular phones. Phone and cable-television operators, such as Bell South, MCI and Cox Enterprises, are developing so-called personal- communications networks, or PCNs, a highly advanced portable-phone system that is expected to cover a wider area, connect to a greater variety of services and be cheaper to operate than conventional cellular...
...first 30 months of the recovery than any other company in the country, but they generally pay only about $5 to $9 an hour. PepsiCo is still expanding, but most of the new jobs are for those who feed the ovens at the company's Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC fast-food restaurants. Result: many people who survive layoffs and find new jobs nonetheless suffer a deep slash in income. One study found that of 2,000-odd workers let go by RJR Nabisco, 72% found jobs -- but at wages that averaged only 47% of their previous...
...power for evil, a character simply says, "He is a bad man." The absence of finesse and subtlety in the script manages to deflate most scenes, transforming supposedly serious scenes into laughable displays of overacting. Consequently, Merlyn has the dramatic tension of a "Saved by the Bell" episode and the character development of a cartoon...