Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collar work. Nutritionists despaired over the high fat and sodium content of McDonald's fare, while food snobs ridiculed creations like Big Mac's "special sauce" as gooey and gross. Even investors, who had been smitten with McDonald's stock for two decades, were predicting that a glut of golden arches would soon put an end to the chain's glory days of growth...
...chain 20 times annually. The company claims to serve 17 million U.S. customers each day, providing more than 11% of all dinners away from home and 25% of breakfasts. Observes Conrad Kottak, professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan: "You can hardly spend a day without seeing a golden arch. It's a symbol of security...
...Crimson, however, did little to make the afternoon worthwhile, as it suffered a 6-3 shellacking by the Golden Gophers--Harvard's worst defeat in over two years...
...question about his pugnacity by saying, "Inside this exterior of militant, turf-conscious, excessively ambitious demeanor there's a heart as big as all outdoors." Later, snipping a ribbon to open his Manchester, N.H., headquarters, he cracked, "I'm used to a bayonet, but today I have golden scissors...
...Gandhi cultivated an image as a young, honest politician who was determined to modernize the economy and clean up the Congress Party, whose members he said in 1985 "follow no principle of public morality." Today, none of those goals has been fulfilled, and Gandhi seems to have lost his golden electioneering touch. He made four campaign swings in March through West Bengal (pop. 60 million). Referring to the Communist government of West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, 72, Gandhi repeatedly exhorted the crowds to "smash the red fort of Marxism...