Word: joints
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Overseas, the going has been a bit rougher. In Europe, McDonald's management learned belatedly that, in contrast to the U.S., the customers are nearly all in the cities. Though McDonald's now has 467 stores in 22 foreign markets, the majority are company-owned or joint ventures, and the international operation will not become truly profitable until franchising begins in earnest -as it is about to in Germany, Australia and Japan. Says Chairman Fred Turner: "Who [in Europe] is marketing to the family for a reasonably priced meal away from home? There isn't anyone. There...
ready to be President. His contempt for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed so bitterly at the time of the Bay of Pigs, evolved into the realization that sometimes they knew better than he did. "I did not know enough to ask the right questions," he admitted. One night at dinner Kennedy confessed to friends that Khrushchev turned out to be different from any person he had ever met or imagined. J.F.K.'s experience up to then had suggested that Khrushchev would share his fear of a nuclear exchange and pledge himself to do almost anything to avoid...
...added the next day. The feeling in the White House is that they have a blockbuster on their hands. There is talk of a three-part presentation by the President next week: a fireside chat to discuss the need for a strong energy policy, a speech before a joint session of Congress to present the policy, and a full-dress press conference to explain it -all on national...
...Ridge, Tenn., will be restricted to research employing other fuels, like thorium, which is not used in weapons. Carter will block the federal funds needed to complete a privately owned plant in Barnwell, S.C., designed to reprocess used uranium fuel into plutonium. He will also call for a "joint effort" with other nations to tighten controls over plutonium...
...meddling "goo-goos," the knee-jerk liberals who vanish in crisis, the Brattle Street chic who, safely on the sidelines, their children in private schools, applaud Garrity's ruling. At times, Liberty's Chosen Home is devastating social history: the concerned group of clergymen unable to agree on a joint statement about the crisis over their breakfast at the Harvard Club; the silence of civil libertarians when the TPF went into the Rabbit Inn with clubs swinging; the bizarre and absurd posturing by the Boston Globe, including an article in which veterans of the anti-war and civil rights movements...