Word: mcdonald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...originally planned. It does not please everyone. Says Guy Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Water Resources: "The major environmental effect of this pipeline and the road that parallels it is that they're there." With them come nightmares of a pipeline road spotted with McDonald's drive-ins, Exxon stations, Holiday Inns, 7-Eleven stores and the other trappings of mobile America...
...Midwest Enforcement Director James McDonald calls the consent decree a "monumental first" that will help the agency in bargaining with other companies and communities (including the city of Detroit) that resist its decrees. Says McDonald: "We are going to be very ties." firm One and seek indication of the substantial penal agency's hard line: before the consent decree, it had begun proceedings to make...
...been to specialize in selling fellow veterans relatively inexpensive homes with VA-guaranteed loans. Says he: "We sell an average of 100 houses a month in the $60,000-and-below market. We make money on volume, not high-priced individual units. We're kind of like McDonald...
...employees, the attraction of a regular, weekly three-day furlough from the salt mines is obvious enough, but some companies have found that the four-day week also brings certain problems. McDonald's Corp., which since 1969 has closed up shop every summertime Friday at 1 p.m. in all its administrative offices around the country, finds that while the workers love it, business callers sometimes get frustrated trying to reach someone on the phone on a Friday afternoon. Other four-day companies have found that workers tend to use their longer weekends to moonlight on second jobs, and thus...
...former reserve clause and will now be ruined without it. But would any sane businessman have purchased either of the two expansion franchises last year for $10 million each if they were certain financial losers? A baseball team can be used as a tax shelter for rich men like McDonald's owner Ray Kroc or Seagram's magnate Charles Bronfman, but shrewd businessmen do not generally invest in predictably unprofitable enterprises...