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...Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonald's combined. There would be more than 1,000 Howard Johnson restaurants and 500 motor lodges. Yet after Johnson's death in 1972, the company lost its raison d'etre. The restaurants became obsolete; the food quality deteriorated. You underestimate the clientele at your peril. The late restaurateur Joe Baum used to say, "There is no victory over a customer...
...sure, there are children in real peril. Many kids are living in unstable homes amid conditions that truly threaten brain development. What is more, the growing strains on the child-care system, especially since welfare reform, give child-development experts particular cause for worry. Without meaningful intervention before they reach school age, neglected or abused children may struggle with learning for the rest of their lives. "If they're not getting the nurturing they need in the earliest years, their synaptic development shuts down, which in turn shuts down the foundations for learning and being a human being," says Matthew...
...helpful to have sex celebrated and sexuality celebrated in a positive way," she said. "If we as women don't affirm our sexuality, we are in danger of losing it. It is in peril...
...Asians have traditionally been somewhat diffident when it comes to politics. Nearly two-thirds of Asians in the U.S. are immigrants, many from countries with checkered democratic traditions; most push their kids to become doctors and engineers, not lawmakers. Many saw the 1996 campaign-finance scandal as a Yellow Peril witch-hunt. One Indian aspirant for a House seat in Indiana, R. Nag Nagarajan, lost in the spring primary mainly because, a local Democratic official said, "his name conjures up some Middle East monster." When Lim's wife Grace approached a potential supporter at an Oregon county fair in August...
...worst product of this monster political correctness is the perception that political correctness is no more than ethnic self-affirmation a la Stuart Smalley. Assuming, for example, that minority literature only appeals to minorities comes perilously close to placing the burden of multiculturalism on the minority. Assuming that whites aren't involved--or aren't interested in becoming involved--in building America's multiracial, multiethnic democracy means going back to seeing racism as "That Black Problem" or Yellow Peril as "That Asian Problem." Strained relations between members of our American community are everyone's problem...