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...throwaway culture to some people, many others are making a more generous assessment of the hamburger giant's value. Even Soviet television, which in the past has portrayed the hamburger chain as a capitalist conspiracy to sell tasteless food, broadcast a report last November that lauded a McDonald's outlet in Manhattan as a model of speedy and friendly service. Intoned the commentator: "Maybe there is something we can learn from this...
...past few weeks have been typically productive for McDonald's. At its current pace of opening a new outlet every 17 hours, the chain last month christened some 40 new restaurants in places ranging from Manhattan, Kans., to Munich, West Germany, bringing the total number to about 9,530 worldwide. At the same time, the promotion-minded company launched its largest-ever contest, a Monopoly-based game in which 500 million tickets will be given out and $40 million in prizes awarded. And last week the corporation, which is based in Oak Brook, Ill., and takes pride...
...home study. Poindexter has been busying himself with the routine activities of any suburban homeowner: accompanying his sons Tom, 18, and Joe, 16, to the movies; attending services at the Episcopal church where his wife Linda is assistant pastor; shopping at a local hardware store and Radio Shack outlet to buy equipment for various fix-up projects around his Rockville, Md., house...
...appear. That unexpected display of emotion was memorable for its rarity, since Bud McFarlane is a man whom the word taciturn might have been invented to describe. But powerful emotions evidently boil behind McFarlane's studiedly enigmatic face, and last week they found a sad outlet...
...planning on "changing the atmospherewithout changing the movies," said Griesmer. Thenew owners plan to install a "state of the artconcession stand." This modern stand will includean espresso machine, Emack and Bolio's ice cream,and an outlet of the Au Bon Pain chain. Suchconcessions already exist at their Copley cinema...