Word: mcdonald
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...teenage tobacco abuse. Recent studies have estimated that more than three million minors abuse tobacco, leading the Clinton administration to call such widespread use a "pediatric disease." In a year when smoking among eighth graders is up 30 percent and more kindergarteners can identify Joe Camel than Ronald McDonald, the city's actions are not only justifiable, but desperately needed...
...Koki beef contains 17.98 grams of fat per serving, five grams more than a McDonald's cheeseburger...
...generally, all Harvard students deserve a real movie theater as well as better bars and clubs in the Square, within walking distance. A student center that sells cheap junk food like McDonald's and Taco Bell instead of sophisticated, higher-priced substitutes would be nice too. But I'm only Santa Claus--I can't work miracles. Merry Christmas, everyone...
...percent (according to the companies) and they expect to lose over $100 million because of the strike, Gannett and Knight-Ridder won't give in to settlement even by arbitration. These are national newspaper chains; they are dedicated to serving up a profit-making product, much as McDonald's dishes out greased buns. People love it, but they've no idea of the impact of digesting such trash. A corporation has little allegiance to any particular city; its business exist solely for financial gain and care little if at all about the community they serve...
...example, a recent study by Columbia University anthropologist Catherine Newman demonstrates that: "At the McDonald's on 125th Street in Harlem [alone], 300 people, most of them black, apply every month for a handful of openings for jobs that pay $4.25 an hour (Jonathan Kaufman, Wall Street Journal, Jun. 6, 95). Newman goes on: "On average, fast-food restaurants in the area have 14 job applicants for every minimum-wage opening.... Most blacks seeking work at Harlem fast-food chains have applied for four or five other jobs." Newman's study suggests to me that "poor blacks" in the "inner...