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CHICAGO: Big Mac customers, loosen your belts and move up to the next size in trousers. McDonald's plans to slash its flagship hamburger's price to a mere 55 cents with the purchase of fries and a drink in a bid to keep competitors at bay and customers happily chomping away. The new Big Mac, currently priced at around $2, could appear in stores "within months," according to the fast food empire. That deadline might be moved back, though, if, as expected, franchisee owners give the plan the nod this Friday. Whenever it comes, analysts predict that...
...years Phil Rosenthal pursued his rock-'n'-roll dream without much reward. He moved to Los Angeles. He started a Beatlesesque pop band, Twenty Cent Crush, and signed with the tiny label Not Lame Records. He cut a single, Sunday Girl, that was a hit in Finland, of all places. Stateside, however, his band was nowhere...
Then last August, Rosenthal met Joe Seta and Nora Rothrock, proprietors of a site on the World Wide Web called Artists Underground www.aumusic.com) who invited the band to post a sound clip on their Website and participate in a live "computercast" concert. In September, Twenty Cent Crush made its cyberspace debut, playing a gig at L.A.'s Billboard Live that was piped directly onto...
According to Pedro, the 65-cent fare currently charged on the buses recovers only between 30 and 40 percent of the actual operating costs, which include the highest pay for bus drivers in the country...
Students and residents will no longer be forced to choose between a $25 wild cab ride down the Charles and an 85-cent, hour-long trek on a rainbow of subway lines with suitcases in tow. Finally, the city has cleared the way for the logical, environment-friendly alternative: mass surface transportation to the airport...