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...were coming in together in the last 50 yards when Kate had to go way off to the left around a ditch, which slowed her down a lot." Stricker said after the race...
...starting a string of McDonald's stores in France, the hamburger finally took off in Paris in 1976. Dayan's outlets became some of the busiest restaurants in the world, and his 14 stores netted annual sales revenues of more than 30 million. Until the French began to ditch escargot for Egg McMuffins, McDonald's home office in Oakbrook, Illinois had left Dayan virtually alone. But as profits increased, Dayan argues, so did the desire on the part of company executives to repossess his suddenly prosperous market. In 1977, McDonald's began to send inspectors to Paris. After several attempts...
...Atlanta's trauma as "characters in a national drama" and which "tried to tell you what the people are really like." The product of a solid month of research, "Oney's piece recounted the vigil of a Black family with a missing child; of the family's last-ditch hope that hiring private detectives to scour Atlanta would help; and of the "absolutely surreal" atmosphere that took hold of the city in early spring and did not let go until the indictment of a suspect this summer...
...Morgan was among the most conservative Democrats in the Senate. East's ads charged that Morgan had voted "to scrap the B-1 bomber." Morgan, in a 39-page postcampaign rebuttal to the East ads, said he had voted twice for the B1, voting against only the last-ditch effort to build five prototypes as a bailout for the manufacturer...
...medical reading had led her to believe that they had not been thorough in her daughter's case. From a nursing manual, she learned that when there is evidence of severe pressure inside the skull, a lumbar puncture is usually performed only as a last-ditch diagnostic test because it can result in a portion of the brain's being pushed down into the spine, possibly causing death. According to the manual, a brain scan should be performed first...