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...bipartisan Kissinger group, the White House hopes, will pound out a working consensus on Central American policy. But optimism is not rampant. Kis singer said that close up, the situation looked "far graver than most of us had expected." Democratic Representative Michael Barnes traveled with the commission. "I'm very depressed," he said, because events "seem headed almost in exorably toward a regional...
...example, managers say they recently beefed up the quality of their meat: "We use 3/4 pound. 100% pure Black Angus beef a sign above the counter boasts. Quantity meets quality in the "slim burger," a 3/4 pounder with everything on it. French fries, for 75 cents, are thick and "corrugated...
...million Americans, stricken by such cravings as the Big Mac attack and the Whopper whim, happily surrender to the artery-clogging, waist-expanding pleasures of fast food. But for diet-conscious consumers in particular, a megaburger binge provokes guilt feelings. Reason: the grab-a-bite meal of a quarter-pound cheeseburger, French fries and 16-oz. cola typically contains 1,070 calories. Since an average 170-lb. officeworker must consume fewer than 2,900 calories a day in order to lose weight, a trip to the burger stand does not leave much room for breakfast and dinner...
Wood won his medal at Dursburg in a boat fitted with a sliding rigger, which means that the rower sits in a fixed seat and the our assembly moves back and forth. From the standpoint of physics, it means a faster boat, because instead of a 190-pound oarsman moving back and forth, a 30-pound set of oars is moving back and forth...
Since 1980 the dollar's surge has been all but relentless. Its value has increased 105% in relation to the French franc, 53% against the West German mark and 50% against the British pound. Now America's currency is about 25% too strong for its own good, according to such experts as C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics in Washington, and Otto Eckstein, chairman of Massachusetts-based Data Resources...