Word: pounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quarter-Pounder with cheese in Macedonia, Ohio, you'll have to cross a picket line. Six young McDonald's employees got so angry over management's alleged rudeness and refusal to grant leave over Easter that they launched the first-ever strike against the company in the U.S. "Trade unions have never gone after McDonald's because its workforce is so transitory -- it's mostly composed of kids," says TIME correspondent Edward Barnes. But while the nation's sunny economic prospects may embolden service sector labor, the major threat facing McDonald's in the three-day-old strike...
...Hell, if they can charge $4.95 for a mediocre steak burrito, I need a quarter-pounder," said Alex E. Potente, a third year law student...
...will spark a fierce price war with competitors Wendy's and Burger King, who so far have been adept at luring customers away from the Golden Arches with cheaper offerings. Over the next year, the 55-cent deal will rotate from the Big Mac to the Quarter Pounder to the McRib to the Arch Deluxe hamburger, placing the price of a McDonald's value meal at about $2.50 ? a considerable drop from the current price of around $4. But the grin might be on Ronald McDonald's face alone. Some franchisees turn up their nose at the "Campaign 55" plan...
Harvard lost in a tough battle at New Brunswick, New Jersey that was determined in the last match. Freshman 126-pounder Brett Williams pulled out an important pin in his match but it was not meant to be for Harvard which lost the meet 25-16 to Rutgers...
Harvard most likely will be without junior 190-pounder Rob Durbin who will have surgery on his injured knee...