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...Clara Peller first cried, "Where's the beef?" for Wendy's a year ago. The diminutive octogenarian actress made the phrase a part of the language and helped Wendy's sales jump 31% last year, to $945 million, at the company's 3,095 fast-food restaurants worldwide. She will ask the question no more, at least for Wendy's. The firm decided last week to end its relationship with Peller. Reason: she made a commercial for Campbell's Prego Plus Spaghetti Sauce in which she says, "I found...
...years ago. In the course of his humor counseling since, he has tried to find a funny bone in the Internal Revenue Service, the San Francisco police department, the board of directors of the California Business Bank, any number of software manufacturers in Silicon Valley, the University of Santa Clara business school, a group of Navy missile engineers and the National Conference of State Legislatures, all of which have paid hundreds of dollars to hear him out. Though Kushner has had to shore up his income by writing for legal newspapers, his oddball calling just now appears to have reached...
...premises examples. Near the end of his address, as proof that "anything is possible in America," Reagan introduced two special guests seated with wife Nancy in the visitors' gallery: Jean Nguyen, 21, a cadet at West Point whose family fled Viet Nam as refugees in 1974, and "Mother" Clara Hale, 79, a Harlem social worker who specializes in the care of heroin-addicted infants born of drug- abusing mothers. The President had scouted both of these "American heroes" himself: he read about Hale in a magazine and noticed Nguyen in a brief TV appearance...
Nutcracker is the story of twelve year old Marie (Clara in the ballet) the merry daughter of a wealthy German noble family. On Christmas eve Marie and her brother Fritz prepare to enter the parlor of their home where piles of gifts await them. They most eagerly anticipate the annual gift of their clockmaker Godfather Drosselmeir. Drosselmeir's elaborate present almost spoils the mood of the occasion as Fritz complains bitterly when he finds that he cannot enter the castle. Marie's eye however soon is distracted from Fritz to a small table a top which stands a beautiful little...
...ward off a recession than it was in 1980. At that time, inflation was 12%, and Volcker had little choice but to give the economy a cold shower. This year price rises have been so modest that Treasury Secretary Donald Regan has taken to asking in the manner of Clara ("Where's the beef?") Peller, "Where's the inflation?" Since January the consumer price index has risen at an annual rate of 4.5%. Producer prices, which often foreshadow trends in consumer costs, have gone up at a mild 1.8% pace so far this year and have actually declined...