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...switch is on. Burger King said two weeks ago it would change to vegetable oil, eliminating cholesterol and dramatically reducing saturated fat. Last week McDonald's and Wendy's followed suit. McDonald's claimed its decision was based on "more than eight years of extensive research and customer tests." Even so, Sokolof was calling it a victory. Said he: "The American public has the power to move mountains." Even fat ones...
...With the switch to Lauder, she will have a more visible profile in the business world and the media. That, according to her feminist friend Gloria Steinem, is ideal. "I think of Robin as the new woman executive -- a lot more individual in dress and behavior, with a sense of humor, a whole person. That's why both men and women love working for her. She makes it fun for the individual...
There have to be a few Bushmen, along about now, who are wondering if the process of de-Reaganization hasn't gone too far. With the tax switch clinging to their cheeks like the remnants of a burst globe of bubble gum, they must be asking themselves, Would the Gipper ever have got into such a mess...
...American intermediate-range missiles out of Europe, he provoked far less anguish among his movement conservative supporters than Richard Nixon did when he went to China. Reagan, unlike Nixon, had a reserve fund of trust, and he drew on it. A more pertinent example of a low-cost Reagan switch comes from his days as Governor of California. Reagan, as part of his general opposition to high taxes, believed that taxpaying should be an obvious and unpleasant activity -- "Taxes should hurt" was a favorite slogan -- and he was therefore opposed to state income tax withholding, a position on which...
That kind of caution was not what politicians feared when they agreed to merge the German economies. East Germans had squirreled away some 180 billion ostmarks, which came to roughly $70 billion in new spending power when converted into deutsche marks. To cope with the switch, the Bundesbank shipped 600 tons of crisp new bills -- $15 billion in all -- to 10,000 banks, police stations, post offices and temporary disbursement points...