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Nevertheless, Boston Market has fundamentally changed the restaurant industry. More than half the meals ordered in a sit-down restaurant get up and go home to be eaten. According to the National Restaurant Association, this year the entire industry is growing at a modest 3% clip, while takeout is expanding at more than twice that, at 7%. "The restaurant has become a prepared supermarket," says the NPD Group's Balzer...
...Congress, of course, that passed the law authorizing the program, or at least authorizing something. A modest three sentences of the massive Telecommunications Act of 1996 told the FCC to expand an existing industry-funded program that provides low-cost telephone service in rural areas and inner cities into one that would hook up schools and libraries. "We gave them much more of an opening than we have in the past," says John McCain, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. "They did what bureaucrats do when you give them money and power...
...billion antitobacco bill, which will be the subject of contentious debate in the Senate this week. Despite demands from leading Senate Democrats--and some Republicans--that the price of a pack of cigarettes be raised by $1.50 over five years, the Administration agreed to support McCain's more modest $1.10-a-pack hike. In return, the Arizona Senator strengthened the provisions that would penalize the industry for not meeting targets in reducing teen smoking. Also, McCain and the White House acted to pacify convenience-store owners by restricting the FDA's ability to unilaterally ban the sale of cigarettes from...
...most excited by rhythmic ideas; the tunes are Latin standards from Puerto Rico, Cuba and Brazil, and Sanchez delights in reversing field on them, turning a gentle Antonio Carlos Jobim song, for instance, into a rowdy Caribbean parade. The album really soars when the accompanying 10-piece orchestra forgoes modest backing and muscles its way into the dance along with the congas. It's the kind of witty arranging that could give strings a good name...
...drugs that work in lab animals turn out to be duds in humans. The field is littered with "magic bullets" that failed, among them monoclonal antibodies, tumor necrosis factor, interferon and interleukin-2. While all were initially hyped as potential cure-alls, they have turned out to have only modest usefulness in the war on cancer. At best, says Dr. Allen Oliff, Merck & Co.'s chief of cancer research, no more than 10% or 20% of agents tried in mice succeed. (On the other hand, the treatments that are good for people are almost always good for mice...