Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right now, all these are among the half a dozen or so eating concepts being tested in pilot restaurants around the country in the hope that they will grow up to be the new-age McDonald's, Bob's Big Boys or Howard Johnsons. Such national restaurant chains are made, not born. Dreamed up by corporate entrepreneurs, they are produced by high-priced, savvy market researchers, advertising gurus, graphic designers and architects -- as well as by food consultants who cook up portion-controlled, idiot-proof recipes to feed the projected image. Owing more to McLuhan than to Escoffier, their packages...
This prospect is not so dismal as it sounds. If protected well, the remaining quarter-million elephants would be a large enough population to thrive and multiply again. In fact, David Western, director of WCI, asserts that if allowed to grow old and die naturally, the elephants in these herds could probably supply enough tusks to support an ivory market larger than today's illegal business...
...participant asked Cage what he does when fans grow too affectionate. He said when members of a Milan audience walked on stage and began to kiss him several years ago, he simply ignored them until they returned to their seats...
...become a period of academic anarchy. While a small minority of students are left with two long weeks and nothing to do but study, most students are burdened with enormous piles of new work and face large demands on their time. It's no surprise that students grow extremely tense and irritable at this time...
...company thrives, ESOP participants can grow a nest egg far beyond the means of most wage earners. At Quad/Graphics, which prints hundreds of catalogs and magazines, including a regional edition of TIME, the value of ESOP shares has risen from 6 cents in 1975 to $5 currently. The company's 3,500 workers own 18% of its stock, with the prospect of eventually acquiring an additional 12%. In the case of Stone Construction Equipment, a small firm in Honeoye, N.Y., company heir Alan Stone no longer wanted to run the operation, so he sold it two years...