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...management is unhappy because sales in U.S. stores have been flat as a frozen beef patty in the past two years and profit margins are eroding. Some of the 2,750 franchisees are unhappy--some downright testy--because rapid store expansion has cannibalized sales and the company's advertising and promotion, although ubiquitous, have been ineffectual. Most recent case: a deep-discount program called Campaign 55 (the company was founded in 1955), which hasn't been a rousing success...
REDMOND, Wash.: Aiming to take over your television screen as well as your desktop, , Bill Gates scooped up an 11.5 percent chunk of Comcast , the country's sixth largest cable operator. That gives him Comcast's stake in @Home Network , an online service that uses cable modems to provide rapid access to the Internet. TIME Business editor Bill Saporito?s view? ?Now Bill's got himself a delivery truck. Cable is such a capital-intensive industry because of the equipment. So for Comcast, which has a lot of debt, money is always welcome. It's not really a big deal...
...light of the rapid spread and danger of the HIV virus which causes AIDS, we are overjoyed to learn that University Health Services will institute anonymous HIV antibody testing. However, we are disappointed that students are being charged $10 for this service. For those looking for any reason to avoid getting tested, an extra $10 may be that sought-after incentive. There is absolutely no excuse and no reason for discouraging anyone from having an HIV test. It is incredibly important that everyone know their partners, know themselves, and act safely. We encourage testing at all costs for anyone...
Although he won the chair after a clash with fellow Democrats, many of Birmingham's colleagues say that his rapid ascendance is a tribute to his new approach to doing business in the State House...
Novels do not ordinarily dabble with too much exactitude in current events or upcoming headlines; fiction writers hope, after all, that their work will outlast the rapid stream of passing fancies. But Paul Theroux's Kowloon Tong (Houghton Mifflin; 243 pages; $23) arrives as a noteworthy exception to that rule. On June 30 Britain will end its long-term ownership and control of Hong Kong and hand over the colony to the People's Republic of China. Hot off the presses, Kowloon Tong offers Theroux's imaginative version of how some Hong Kong residents have fared--and will fare...