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Having added hundreds of stores year after year, McDonald's is finding the specter of reaching market saturation very real. Fortunately, overseas sales are robust and last year kicked in 59% of the company's $2.6 billion in operating income. But in the U.S. the $103 billion-a-year fast-food industry is slowing down, and McDonald's, far and away the leader, is feeling the loss of momentum hardest. Its stock has been a notable laggard, returning a paltry 1.2% to investors last year...
...victory over Penn guaranteed Harvard its first winning league record since the 1983-84 season. Harvard added two blowout victories over Yale and Brown to cement a robust 10-4 league mark, the team's best since the 1970-71 campaign...
Volunteerism is an integral component of a well-functioning democracy, both for those that are served and for those that serve. As such, it is wonderful that President Clinton is addressing the recent dwindling of volunteer efforts and working to create a more robust civic life. However, in the history of modern America, volunteerism has never existed in complete isolation from government support. Individuals alone, without the financial and institutional structure that government can provide, can do only so much. Ultimately, this is not a debate about volunteerism versus government. It is a question of caring for those in need...
...than at least most of the way back into the Russian orbit. Russian President Boris Yeltsin approved an agreement Monday that will create a single citizenship for residents of both republics and unify their foreign and economic policies. Faced with a shattered economy that makes Russia's look robust, Lukashenko has pushed for integration with Russia, which in any case supplies Belarus with everything from cheap fuel to tractor parts. For his part, Yeltsin hopes that swallowing up Belarus and extending Russia's borders westward could provide a counterweight to a rapidly encroaching NATO. The new entity will be governed...
Flatley's robust sense of self, combined with a stupefyingly energetic stage presence, has made him the center of a cultural phenomenon few would have predicted--a rage for the jig. As star of the two-year-old, 85-member Riverdance, the traveling Gaelic dance show, Flatley hopped, stepped and high-kicked to exultant houses in London and Dublin. When he parted ways with the company in October 1995 over a bitter, and still unresolved, creative dispute, he fashioned Lord of the Dance, a glitzier rival extravaganza showcasing his talents and the updated, freer-form manner of Irish dance...