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...franchisees fuming about nearby newcomers cannibalizing their sales - has eased. Only about 300 new stores are expected to open in the U.S. this year, compared with 1,100 in 1995. But there are critics who say that even that is too many and that McDonald's needs to weed out the worst franchisees and shut down some of the underperforming restaurants. "They've stretched the store managers. There are 1,000 of them that are marginal at best," says Howard Penney, an analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, who thinks McDonald's should close 500 to 1,000 branches. "They have...
Twenty miles southwest of Scottsbluff, Jim Wyatt, 41, who has already stripped his fields of everything but baked, brown grass, is hoping he can find enough scrub weed in neighbors' pastures to feed his cattle. Others have sold entire herds for pennies a pound. "If you can't feed them, you can't keep them," says Wyatt. Dry-land farmers, who either can't afford the expensive irrigation water or live too far out to be able to use it, are in even worse shape...
...free and open society—and encouraging Americans to spend time at universities abroad—is an important way we can combat the ignorance and hatred which manifested itself on Sept. 11. Therefore, where possible, friendly foreign governments should assist U.S. agencies in their background checks to weed out potential terrorists. All stand to gain from extending foreign students a safe and speedy welcome...
Senior Bryce Weed and Second Team All-Ivy sophomore Liza Barber join Fisher in back for now. Past starters sophomore Lauren Cozzolino and senior Katie Urbanic figure to work their way back into the regular playing rotation when healthy...
...free stuff," says Justin Allen about his first dating-show stint. "I got three days in California, all expenses paid and $500." Other shows pay as little as $100 for a day's "work." But they offer a hit of today's drug of choice, exposure. "We try to weed out the wannabe actors and actresses," says David Garfinkle, co-creator of Blind Date, Rendez-View and The 5th Wheel. "No one has ever come on our show and become famous...