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...will also have to fend off a stampede of competitors. McDonald's is planning to open an additional 100 restaurants a year on the mainland, and U.S.-based Church's Chicken will roll out stores in two major cities in 2004. Even chains that previously flopped in China, including Popeyes, are enticed again. There are also the inevitable domestic copycats to contend with. An 80-outlet, Shanghai-based chain called YongHe King uses KFC's familiar red-and-white color scheme and even has a Colonel Sanders look-alike in its logo...
...fend off infectious diseases and their economic repercussions, countries around the world must develop strong public health systems, Bloom told a small group of students...
...Liza, stop it, stop it!'" David Gest, husband of actress Liza Minelli, recounting how he tried to fend off allegedly drunken beatings by his wife, according to his $10 million civil suit. Minelli, who denies the allegations, has filed for divorce...
...though regular bar patrons have long gotten used to the idea of St. Pauli Girl in Los Angeles and Foster’s in Minneapolis, there is a part of me that would rather fend off flat tires on West Fourth from broken pieces of Boston’s own Sam Adams, not Corona. There is a part of me that still wants to feel something distinctive about the town that I’m walking through. I want to know that it is unique, it is different, and it is not Anytown...
...Okrent, a former editor of LIFE magazine, is how a group of mismatched and combustible characters could make the thing happen. It didn't require much. All they had to do was undertake a project that would have stumped the pharaohs, fight like pit vipers, face down the Depression, fend off naysayers on all sides and still produce what Okrent calls an "aesthetic, commercial, and--there's no other word for it--emotional success...