Word: chain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first BET SoundStage restaurant, a black version of the Hard Rock Cafe, is already a profitable attraction in suburban Washington. The next one opens at Disney World in Orlando, Fla., in May. Johnson says he may open as many as 20 SoundStages around the country, and take the chain public...
...starts by projecting stereograms--two-dimensional images that produce three-dimensional illusions--onto a big movie screen. As the students stare, a pattern of chain-saw-wielding teddy bears magically gives rise to the image of a large, headless bear that seems to hover in space. Sometimes, explains Pinker, 43, the mind "sees" things that are not really there...
...fatten the company's bottom line. These days, as chief of the Times Mirror Co., Willes is crunching more than Cheerios--he has set out to prove that newspapers can be packaged and marketed as effectively as snack food. And he has chosen the goliath Los Angeles Times, the chain's flagship, as his latest demonstration project. In the process, the former champion of breakfasts is demolishing the old order at America's fourth largest paper. Last month he swept out publisher Richard Schlosberg III and named himself the successor. Last week he accepted the resignation of a weary Shelby...
There's no doubt that Wall Street is ratcheting pressure on editors. Maxwell E.P. King, editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, also stepped down last week after his own bruising battles with bottom-liners at the Knight-Ridder chain. In Los Angeles, editor Parks says he's not worried. "Look, the walls are not going to come tumbling down," he says. "This is not Jericho. I am absolutely confident of our ability to work out this new partnership with the business side--and not only our ability, but of our need to do it." The crunch, after...
...creation of a $22 million fund to assist "dissuaded" male job applicants. But Hooters staged protests in Washington, led by a bevy of lovely you-know-Hooters, suggesting that the EEOC get a life. The agency, citing a lack of funds, eventually dropped its case against the chain...