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Keep wishing. The Snyder family--secretive and at times turbulent--has stubbornly resisted outside investors since the restaurant's inception in 1948. Its fierce devotion to its core business--serving tasty, nonfrozen, nonmicrowaved, made-to-order burgers and fries--has kept the company profitable and growing; remember that hundreds of fast-food-franchise concepts have flamed out since then. "Keep it real simple," Harry Snyder, a co-founder with his wife Esther of In-N-Out, would often say. "Do one thing, and do it the best you can." The company thrived on its stellar customer service and higher-than...
...take is markedly less deterministic. Corruption may have killed Africa, he notes, but it worked rather well in South Korea, where bribery attained taxlike precision. Beattie, an editor at the Financial Times, develops a few themes: free trade is good. Infrastructure is unsexy but vital. Capital cities are best kept small (making rioting less likely). For the most part, though, he tosses evidence on the table, then walks away. Debunking the supposed link between the Protestant work ethic and the rise of modern capitalism, Beattie notes that "the reality is much more complex"--that any sort of society can choose...
Several countries tightened border controls and discouraged travel to affected areas - Cuba suspended all flights to and from Mexico - but the World Health Organization kept the pandemic alert level at Phase 4, still two phases below a full pandemic. Outside Mexico, the apparent epicenter of the A/H1N1 virus, there have been no deaths confirmed from the flu and relatively few hospitalizations, and health officials continued to preach the need for a calm response. "What we see in the United States, or have been seeing so far, has been milder," said Richard Besser, the acting director for the Centers for Disease...
...brought back memories of last year when he was keeping guys off base,” Walsh said. “He was mixing—his fastball was tough because he was getting breaking balls over.”But while the sophomore Nutter kept the Crimson alive, the day belonged to the team’s seniors, who took the field in Harvard uniforms for the last time. Walsh got all eight of his seniors into the game, filling the top six slots of his starting lineup with fourth-years and sending both Cole and Watson...
...moment democracy arrived south of the border. But the process started 15 years before, after a horrendous 1985 earthquake that left 10,000 dead in Mexico City. The PRI's response to that tragedy was appalling, and it sowed the opposition anger that proliferated as the jaded ruling party kept making blunders, including a disastrous 1994 peso crash. In the next presidential election, six years later, Mexico's Berlin Wall finally fell...