Word: follow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McDonald's dominance is the company's huge advertising budget, which amounted to an estimated $700 million last year, far more than its next two competitors combined. Burger King stumbled during the past year with its nerdy "Where's Herb?" campaign, while Wendy's has been unable to follow up on the success of its faddish "Where's the Beef?" commercials. But McDonald's made a big impression once again with commercials portraying the chain as a caring institution. "We spend a bundle trying to stimulate good feelings about the company. We don't knock our competitors," says Michael Quinlan...
...politics, but it is not politics -- this is what we are." In answer to another question, he described the country's system of government as "currently dictatorial." Indeed, activist Chilean Catholic bishops and priests, along with a coalition of centrist and leftist political parties, want Chile to follow the examples of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay, whose military governments have given way to civilian rule since...
This idea that the U.S. is responsible for many of its own trade difficulties, whatever practices the Japanese follow, runs through comments by many people much less expert than Henson on world economics. Says Sheila Saunders, office manager for a monthly magazine in Atlanta: "There was not enough foresight to see that Japan would eventually outproduce us. Basically, we did not meet the competition. We need to advance our technology to produce quality products cheaper...
...what exactly were their beliefs? The 20 July plotters were mainly German army officers who wanted to salvage something from a losing war. They seemed happy to follow the Fuhrer while he was winning. Many soldiers from noble families were willing to die for their country but were ironically spared when Hitler pulled them out of the front lines: he did not want to create upper- class heroes. Vassiltchikov has little to say about bravery on the battlefield or anywhere else. She simply reports the daily toll with the same matter-of- factness that she describes toilet-paper rationing...
This is a philosophical stipulation that remains true regardless of a people's "shared understandings" of the form of government and notions of individual rights that follow from their community's heritage and traditions. It puts strain on his bolder assertions about communal supremacy in his new book...