Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beta Kappa, but five Soviet managers got a degree in hamburgerology last week. After six months of management training in the art of flipping burgers and slinging fries, the Soviet businessmen graduated from McDonald's Hamburger University in suburban Chicago. Their training is a prelude to a planned Big Mac Attack on Moscow sometime next year, when McDonald's hopes to open its first Soviet restaurant, in Pushkin Square...
...BIG SUGAR by Alec Wilkinson (Knopf; $18.95). Every winter, roughly 10,000 West Indian men go to harvest sugarcane by hand in South Florida. The author decided to see how these migrants earn their pay and came back with a story more bitter than sweet...
Having charge of a Miata is like taking a puppy for a walk. People want to pat its stubby little muzzle (which looks as if it is not quite ready for the big world, since it lacks a conventional front bumper). They tell you about sports cars they owned, and when they get to the part where they sold the old XK 120, they look stricken...
...cloistered Italian village of San Gimignano, bold Rosa (Anita Zagaria) is engaged to a town big shot but loves Danilo Lucca (Joseph Long). In a suicidal swoon, the lovers leap from the cathedral tower -- and land, in a flick of Tony Grisoni's supple narrative, in London's Italian quarter. Ten- year-old Eddie Lucca (Ian Hawkes) tells the story with a child's wily innocence as filtered through the memory of a wistful adult...
...products. Yet mismanagement limits its progress. Dull cites as one example a "specialist system," requiring that people be trained to do only one specific task. Party officials, often without agricultural expertise, constantly monitor to make sure things are done as the party dictates. "Soviet farmers are accustomed to having Big Brother watching over their shoulder," says Dull. "So they try hard to make a field look nice on the surface. The result is that tillages may be done twelve times instead of once, and seeds are often planted when the soil...