Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...includes a constellation of some 700 high-tech firms -- making Orange the U.S.'s fifth largest high-tech complex. Its economic output, according to Economist James Doti, is expected to reach about $50 billion this year, vs. $13.5 billion in 1975. The county's economy has grown twice as fast as the nation's in the 1980s. Last year alone, some 50,000 new jobs were created...
...Lites chain of fast-food restaurants seemed like a surefire formula for success in the health-conscious '80s. Its menu was designed for the slender set, featuring such fare as vegetarian pita-bread sandwiches, diet cheeseburgers, frozen yogurt and light beer. The chain grew from one Atlanta outlet in 1981 to about 100 restaurants in 19 states last year. But now D'Lites may be down to its final few bites. Company President Jefferson McMahon, a former Arby's executive who was hired only last November to tighten up D'Lites' management, abruptly quit the top job last week...
Disappointed investors blame the financial squeeze on an overheated expansion drive led by Founder Doug Sheley, 39, who left the company last February. D'Lites outlets were successful in white-collar neighborhoods, but foundered when Sheley situated them in working-class districts, where most fast-food fans remained loyal to Big Macs and Whoppers. D'Lites' stock, after hitting a peak of 15 in 1984, the year it went public, sank last week...
...billion) announced last week that it had agreed to acquire Kentucky Fried Chicken, now owned by RJR Nabisco, for about $850 million. If the deal goes through, the purchase of the 6,500 KFC restaurants will give PepsiCo, which already owns Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, some 14,000 fast-food outlets, more than any other chain. McDonald's, with 9,000 stores, is the current leader...
Tickets are going fast, said Liz Collins in the 350th Office. Since alumni requests for tickets are honored first, it is unlikely that very many students will get the chance to attend, she said. The only symposium that has sold out completely so far, said a spokesman at the ticket office, was one entitled "The Future of the City," perhaps because Charles, Prince of Wales, is expected to attend, she said...