Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problems I did have with the article, after hearing readers' complaints, was the headline "Desperately Seeking McDonald's: Students fight to bring fast food to Harvard Square" (news, page 4). Where the main article, written in the City and Region section, seemed more a feature story and was headlined as such, this headline seems to indicate that there has been a student outcry in favor of a McDonald's in Harvard Square, which is not the case. In addition, the sidebar to the piece, "Caution: Square Contents are Hot," should have been a place where the concerns of both...
...steps an enterprising student would have to take in order to open a McDonald's franchise, from attending Hamburger University (sorry, no transfer credits accepted) to facing the Cambridge City Council. Citing the statistics from last year's Loker Commons survey that 60 percent of respondents favored brand-name fast food there, the writers frame a battle between "hungry Harvardians" who have "resigned themselves to McDeprivation" and the Harvard Square Defense Fund-the mere mention of which "is enough to make a potential Square developer, landowner and McDonald's franchisee lose the Big Macs they ate for lunch...
...order for Kane to develop this site, the Cambridge Board of Planning had to approve his plans, but the board has historically discouraged fast-food chains from operating in the area...
...Pain avoided this stumbling block by presenting itself as a quick food server, not a fast-food restaurant...
...good size, he's got excellent speed, and we haven't had a real fast back in a long time, so it really opened things up," Murphy said...