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Fast-food restaurants specializing in ethnic and regional fare--like the California-based New Meiji chain of Oriental food--are adding to the diversity. "The earlier cycle of fast foods was primarily concerned with supplying sustenance in a cheap, quick manner," says Lamar Berry, a spokesman for Popeyes, a growing chain specializing in spicy, Cajun-style fried chicken. "Now you can get convenience everywhere. People want to get the ethnic experience and titillate their taste buds...
...deal with the lawmakers to avoid a full disclosure. "There are a large number of the programs," says Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. "They will, we think, give us an advantage. And the way to maintain that advantage is not to talk very much about them." --By Jacob V. Lamar Jr. Reported by Michael Duffy and Bruce van Voorst/Washington
...progressive, and anytime you shake up the status quo, you catch flak." As his term winds down, Anaya told a newspaper interviewer that "history will be nice" to his administration. Whatever the future brings, leaving the statehouse can only be a plus for Toney Anaya. --By Jacob V. Lamar Jr. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Santa...
...South, where Democrats have dominated state capitals since Reconstruction, races in Alabama, Texas, Florida and South Carolina are too close to call. Only in Tennessee, where Governor Lamar Alexander is required by law to leave office after his two terms, do the Democrats seem likely to pick up a seat currently held by a Republican...
...passing antilynching legislation decades ago. As the laggards added their names to the resolution, AMERICABLOG removed them from a T shirt it is selling that says, "My Senator went to Washington ... and all I got was a lousy lynching." Among the dozen who declined was Tennessee's Lamar Alexander, who condemned lynching on the floor but refused to co-sponsor the measure, saying, "I prefer to look ahead...