Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Darman -- one of Reagan's brightest tacticians and a chief architect of last year's tax-reform plan -- believes he can be a catalyst for productive enterprise in his new career. "Investment banking can be of great social value," he said. "At its best, it can be done on the basis of intellectual capital as well as financial capital...
McDonald's is proving to be an almost unstoppable -- and in many ways positive -- social and economic force. Particularly at a time when so many U.S. businesses are restructuring and getting back to basics, McDonald's as a corporation looks more and more like a case study in how to concentrate on providing one service exceedingly well. While McDonald's may still represent junk food and throwaway culture to some people, many others are making a more generous assessment of the hamburger giant's value. Even Soviet television, which in the past has portrayed the hamburger chain as a capitalist...
...whatever McDonald's social value as an employer, its impact on America's nutrition remains controversial. One of the perennial criticisms of McDonald's is the fat, sugar and salt content of its menu. The Quarter Pounder with Cheese, for example, contains an estimated 1,220 mg of sodium, which for a person on a strict low-salt diet might exceed an entire day's allotment. Yet during the past several years the company has tried to improve its food's nutritional value, in part by reducing the fat and salt content of some items. In a current advertising campaign...
...where the PM purchased a can of herring-like fish fillets called pilchards. The Prime Minister also met with Physicist Andrei Sakharov, the dissident leader who was allowed to return to Moscow four months ago from a seven-year exile in Gorky. Sakharov emphasized the importance of Gorbachev's social reforms to the prospects for world peace. Said he: "A more democratic, more open country is safer for the world as a whole...
...painting in his life, and it was not Sunflowers. If only he had had what we have today -- a million millionaires clamoring for art, corporate art advisers breeding like Gucci-shod mice in every cranny from Tokyo to Stuttgart, the whole grotesque edifice of sanctimony, hype, greed and social mummery that has been raised above bones like his. How much closer he might have come, poor strange man, to an understanding of his own value...