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...today, the California Pizza Kitchen chain opens the doors of its 43rd restaurant on 16-18 Eliot Street, bringing the number of Square pizzerias to (count 'em) eight...
Gonzalez pats the computer printout on his desk showing a 92% occupancy rate at the Tuxpan and lights up an imported Kool Filter. He plans someday to be manager, even owner of a hotel chain. Does he believe in capitalism now? He grins: "I think like Jesus Christ that the bread has to be divided. Was Christ a communist or a capitalist...
...Broken Chain, which debuts a week later, goes back a century earlier to the confederacy of six Iroquois tribes, an alliance that was shattered by conflicting loyalties during the American Revolution. The focus again is on a legendary rebel -- Joseph Brant (Eric Schweig), an Iroquois warrior educated in English-speaking schools, persuaded his tribe to support the British during the revolution and later became a marauding terror to colonial settlers. The acting is more wooden and the drama more sketchy than in Geronimo. Yet the history lesson -- that principles of the Iroquois confederacy were an important influence on the American...
More important, the jobs being wiped out at giants like Kodak, McDonnell Douglas, IBM and General Motors are far better paid than the jobs opening up at companies still growing rapidly. Wal-Mart, the discount-store chain, created more jobs in the 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...
...love turned sour. Wrong. One author's proposal has been turned down by an astounding 18 publishers, and a couple of other writers have been shut out. Seems some properties are too hot to handle: nobody wants to be iced out of the Haft's giant Crown bookstore chain -- or to get on their hefty list of those being sued...