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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
...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...
...Congress hasn't offered any money to pay for the measure, even though the Congressional Budget Office estimates that it would cost more than $100 million over five years (mostly to create the databases). In a March Op-Ed piece opposing the bill, Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee called it "one more of the unfunded federal mandates that we Republicans promised to stop...
...constitutional amendment permitting prayer in the classroom. The general mood of the nation may have grown more conservative in the '80s but, evidently, activists on neither the right nor the left have had much success in altering American thought on these crucial matters of our time. --By Jacob V. Lamar...