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...fast-food business is changing, trying to overcome its traditional junk-food image. It is vying for a place in the dining mainstream. Menus are expanding and restaurants are sprucing up to attract a more upscale crowd. "A few years ago, fast-food places looked like a mess hall with booths all lined up in a row," says Jeff Campbell, chairman of Burger King, the nation's second largest chain. "People want more these days...
...regular customers are so thrilled with the new menu items, especially the suddenly chic salad bar. "I think it's ridiculous to serve anything green in a junk-food spot," says Johnny Weber, 17, a Burger King devotee in Berkeley. "Before long they'll be dividing the place into meat-eating and nonmeat-eating sections." Argues Louise Adams, a student at Philadelphia's Temple University, who sticks to Whoppers at her local Burger King: "You can always bake a potato or throw a salad together at home...
...that masochism exists but henceforth no woman will ever be diagnosed as suffering from it because the women's movement would be disappointed. Some of the women even doubt that a masochistic personality exists. Garfinkel believes there "simply is no research" to prove it. Walker thinks the group should "junk the whole thing." "Basically," said the beleaguered Spitzer, the feminists are "against what we are trying to do ... They are so enmeshed in spouse abuse that they can't focus on what we see as a problem--that there are people whose pain and suffering can't be explained...
...Administration argues that the tough decisions on Star Wars are still years and years away. Not until research is completed in the early 1990s, they say, will Congress have to vote on billions in SDI budget requests, or junk the project. But that relaxed timetable could be disrupted by an enticing Soviet arms-control offer or a massive Soviet buildup. Ultimately, of course, the choice will be a political one. But perhaps by then the public discussion of SDI will have moved beyond rainbows and building blocks. --By Richard Stengel. Reported by Jay Branegan and Michael Duffy/Washington
...public service by publishing the story on merger madness [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, Dec. 23]. There is nothing inherently wrong with mergers. Our corporation has often taken a stroll down acquisition avenue. But when we take over a company, we do it because we want to run it. People who issue junk bonds are different, as Felix Rohatyn points out. They are not interested in companies as institutions, but want to break up the business they are after. Takeovers using junk bonds rob stockholders of the value of their investment, throw employees out of work and make the American economy less competitive...