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...alone there are, in addition to America, the American Festival Cafe in Rockefeller Plaza, An American Place on the Upper East Side, Cafe Americano and the American Harvest, operated by Hilton International, which also manages American Harvest in Washington and new one in Kansas City. There, however, they have chosen the simple word Harvest in order to avoid confusion with the established American Restaurant in the local Crown Center development. The American Grill prospers in Scottsdale, Ariz., and there is another in the Chicago area. Philadelphia boasts the USA Cafe. In Washington, the American Cafe, originally a casual, simple eatery...
...seats in the National Assembly. The former senator declared himself a presidential candidate last June. Some form of Aquino-Laurel ticket has long been considered a strong combination, but Laurel, who turned 57 last week, has frequently, if somewhat unconvincingly, said he would step aside should another figure be chosen...
...myth) might seem as natural as raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, but it's more like coal in Christmas stockings. As presented in this "nondenominational" version, Claus was a 13th century woodcutter who died and went to the North Pole, where he was greeted as the Chosen One and given a couple hundred elves as his assistants. Stars shine in the north; a UNESCO chorale ladles Bosco over Henry Mancini's syrupy score; Dudley Moore, the chief elf, actually says, "If you give extra kisses, you get bigger hugs." The movie plays like a W.C. Fields nightmare...
...explain this skittishness? "We are still very much governed by our puritanical heritage," answers Faye Wattleton, president of the New York-based Planned Parenthood Federation. "While European societies have chosen to recognize sexual development as a normal part of human development, we have chosen to repress it. At the same time, we behave as if we're not repressing it." In studying various cultures, the Guttmacher researchers found that the highest teen-pregnancy rates were in countries with the least open attitudes toward sex. "The ambivalence our society is projecting about sex is costing us a lot," concludes Institute President...
...interviews with other firms. It is not surprising that this decreased morale and productivity contribute to the finding that half of all mergers yield disappointing financial results. Fortunately, firms can take steps to minimize the human costs of acquisition through comprehensive human-resources planning, effective communication programs and carefully chosen techniques to facilitate a smooth postmerger integration. Mitchell Lee Marks Los Angeles...