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...Prince, senior director of the National Restaurant Association, says that labeling the menus at table-service restaurants probably will not work in most cases, but 80% of fast-food franchises have begun to provide nutrition information. "The recession has driven a lot of this," Prince explains. "When a significant portion of the population wants ingredient information, that number can make the difference between success and failure...
...size. Until the federal agency jumped into the fray, private physicians and nutritionists had been fighting a lonely rearguard action in this realm of superslim slivers and oversize wedges. A manufacturer wishing to boost the nutrient value of a cereal, for example, simply bases the label on an oversize portion. If low calories are the object, the portion becomes minuscule. Take, for example, Entenmann's fat-free Chocolate Loaf Cake, which boasts a scant 70 calories per 1-oz. serving. No one with a sweet tooth would ever cut the cake this small, argues Dr. Brian Levy, who treats diabetics...
...back up his advocacy of a federal tax system under which the central government would collect at least some revenues directly. He was trying to steer them away from proposals, primarily from Yeltsin, for a plan in which the republics collect all the money and pass on a portion to the Kremlin...
Such caution is only natural, given the blatant failure of the state's existing portion of the interstate highway system...
...counterparts on the two other Harvard sports posters--hockey's John Weisbrod and basketball's Ralph James--Callahan was tagged with what proved to be the curse of the sports poster. All three athletes suffered devastating injuries early in the season which kept them out for a large portion of the year...