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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America's nutrition remains controversial. One of the perennial criticisms of McDonald's is the fat, sugar and salt content of its menu. The Quarter Pounder with Cheese, for example, contains an estimated 1,220 mg of sodium, which for a person on a strict low-salt diet might exceed an entire day's allotment. Yet during the past several years the company has tried to improve its food's nutritional value, in part by reducing the fat and salt content of some items. In a current advertising campaign, McDonald's says it has lowered the sodium level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Mac Strikes Back | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...remains to be seen whether the money was well spent: advance ticket sales are holding steady at $5.6 million, and the production has already broken house records at the Gershwin Theater, Broadway's biggest. But weekly operating costs exceed $300,000, and according to Producer Martin Starger, Starlight would have to play to almost 90% of capacity just to recoup its investment within a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Toward The Freight Yards of Fiasco STARLIGHT EXPRESS | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

Simultaneously, the U.S.S.R. could begin accelerated development of antisatellite weapons and space mines, which would enable it to destroy or paralyze the U.S. SDI system. It would be especially easy to destroy the comparatively few reconnaissance stations. The cost to the Soviet Union would increase, but it would not exceed acceptable levels. It would be comparable to the expense of sticking to the package approach and the existing level of the arms race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Arms and Reforms | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

There were signs that the U.S.S.R. was reacting uneasily to the latest evidence of Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness. In announcing the prisoner release, Gennadi Gerasimov, spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry, said he doubted that the number to be freed at the present time would exceed 280. He acknowledged that the Kremlin's action did not enjoy universal support within the party. "I can say to you that there are comrades who think the harsher the better," he declared. "But at the moment, we are heading into a softening, so that we may have fewer people behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Sounds of Freedom | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...example, should increase at a rate of 3% a year until the end of this century. Even allowing for that, the U.S. fertility rate, now 1.8 children per woman, is expected to remain below the "replacement rate" of 2.1. One grim projection: by 2014, deaths will exceed births...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome, America, to the Baby Bust | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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