Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the entire Chicago courtroom--even Curry-laughed, Schultz and McDonald's take the matter very seriously. They say Dayan's operations are irreparably damaging the image of McDonald's around the world because of their failure to maintain strict standards of quality, service, and cleanliness-what McDonald's calls "QSC. In short, they contend Dayan's stores, particularly his highly visible outlets on the Champs Elysee, are "a blight on the system." "At stake here is the good McDonald's name that it took more than a quarter of a century for Ray Kroc (McDonald's founder...
...argues, so did the desire on the part of company executives to repossess his suddenly prosperous market. In 1977, McDonald's began to send inspectors to Paris. After several attempts to buy the operation went nowhere, McDonald's terminated Dayan's license, on the grounds that he failed to maintain...
...observers, however, are worried about one unexpected fallout from the controller walkout: the "reregulation" of the airlines. The Civil Aeronautics Board began dropping restrictions on airline routes and prices in 1977 as a way of lowering ticket prices for travelers and making the carriers more economically efficient. Now, to maintain safety in the skies the FAA is limiting the number of flights and the availability of seats. That move could channel business to some carriers by fiat and shut others out, making service and fares less competitive and defeating the goals of deregulation. The end result would then be less...
...leading personalities of the Nazis' puppet government in Vichy. Although Henri Philippe Petain and the other chief collaborators spent much of their time outside of Paris, their influence and the attractiveness of their arguments were felt throughout the crippled capital. "It is with honor and in order to maintain French unity, a unity that has lasted ten centuries, and in the framework of the constructive activity of the new European order, that today I am embarking on the path of collaboration," Marshal Petain told Hitler in October 1940. Not only did the nation's most honored military leader sanction cooperation...
...unless there is some major supply disruption." Otto Eckstein, chairman of Data Resources, a business consulting firm, estimated that oil prices, after being adjusted for inflation, will fall by 3% annually for the next two years. Finally, the board members expect that Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker will maintain monetary discipline to guard against any new burst of inflation...