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Burger King?s new Israeli outlet at Maale Adumim may turn out to be a whopper of a nightmare for the company. The Arab League announced Monday that it would consider supporting a boycott of the burger chain declared by an organization called American Muslims for Jerusalem in response to the new franchise. The reason? Maale Adumim is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank whose status remains to be settled in talks with the Palestinians, and the boycotters insist that Burger King follow the example of McDonalds, which has kept its golden arches planted firmly within Israel...
HONEST, AL Presidential mendacity is not a pretty sight. To nip it in the bud, we at Notebook pledge to keep an eye on the presidential candidates, rating their less than truthful statements from slight exaggeration ([one shovel]) to whopper ([five shovels]). First up: Al Gore...
Returning to active management, Bechtel spent six months every year roaming the world, hobnobbing with kings, presidents and foreign business magnates, fishing for projects. Around 1947 he landed a whopper: construction of what was then the world's longest oil pipeline (1,068 miles), across Saudi Arabia. That was an early step in the building of a powerful economy as well as a fruitful relationship with Saudi kings. According to legend, on one trip to the kingdom Bechtel noticed the flames of natural gas being burned off at wellheads as he flew over. Surely, he thought, the wasted energy could...
...lies go, it wasn't a very good one. To anyone who ever raised a child, Tawana's story had the unmistakable ring of a whopper--an extreme example of a script that a desperate 15-year-old might well invent if, like Tawana, she had gone AWOL for a few days and needed to deflect a feared stepfather's wrath...
...buttonhole visitors and point out that Shanghai's skyline is populated by 15% of the world's construction cranes, or that Beijingers can buy a Big Mac at one of 42 McDonald's restaurants. Last week WU JICHUAN, who runs China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, unwrapped a whopper: the nation has 100 million phone lines, second only to the U.S. Just two years ago, officials said they hoped to hit 50 million phone lines by the year 2000. Now they're expecting to surpass the U.S.'s 160 million as the millennium rolls in. This is especially remarkable...