McDonald’s Moscow boom slows to a crawl at times
McDonald’s in Moscow draws crowds with Western fast food, but lineups stretch for hours and the restaurant’s 50 000 meals daily volume tests staff. 250 cooks and 27 registers struggle to keep smiles as prices and margins challenge Soviet routines.
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Moscow
McDonald's
McDonald’s
Kremlin
Golden Arches
Pushkin Square
Pravda
United States
Irina Borunova
Murom
Nina Balitskaya
Galina Voyevodkina
McDonald's of Canada
Market in sharp decline as Dow slips below 3000
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 32.67 to 2961.14 amid further profit disappointments from Texas Instruments. The index finished the week with a net loss of 19.06 points as declines outpaced advances about 5 to 3 on the NYSE. Volume reached 177.81 million shares.
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Texas Instruments
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NYSE
Dow Jones Industrials
IBM
Emart
Litton
Lowes
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Mercantile
Bandec
Bakshr
Bell Atl Agt
Moore Corp
Black Dr
Penney
CSX Corp
Potom el
Citizens Bank
Sears
Clorox AI
Comsat
Exxon
Mfcnb Corp
Whittaker Wa
F&m Bancorp
First Bank
Fred
Frederick Common Stock Trading Co
General Motors
Giant Foods
We Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc
Hech
Frederick
London
Europe
U.S
Tokyo Stock Exchange
Government seeks larger share of national park concessions
Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan said the government should capture a bigger portion of concession revenue as contracts renew. He cited park revenues exceeding 500 million in 1988 with only 12.5 million to the National Park Service and called for higher franchise fees to fund park improvements. He noted Yellowstone as a model with about 22 percent of concession receipts to the government.
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Washington
National Parks
Interior Department
Manuel Lujan
Uncle Sam
National Park Service
Lujan
Eli Mb
Park Service
Yellowstone National Park
RTC bailout funds near depletion as 77 closings eyed
The Resolution Trust Corp oversight board says bailout money may run dry if 77 S&L institutions are closed or sold by September 30. With $50 billion approved, about $37 billion used after the 77 resolutions, leaving as little as $7.3 billion in borrowing authority when the new fiscal year starts. Legal caps on short term borrowing could trigger a cash crunch before the full fund is exhausted.
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Washington
Bush
Resolution Trust Corp. Oversight Board
Congress
Oversight Board
S&l
Sianifign Atts
Riegle ends donations amid S and L probe halt
Senate Banking Chairman Donald Riegle says he will give away campaign funds from savings and loan interests and take no more. He notes S and L problems from 15 years of failures cast a shadow on the industry and campaign contributions.
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Washington (Ap
Senate Banking Committee
Donald Riegie
S&l
Riegle
D-Mich
Ethics Committee
Charles H. Keating Jr
Lincoln Savings and Loan
Irving
Calif
Phoenix Woman Cited Over Noose Exceeding Home Space
Jeanne Saliman faces zoning charges for NOSE the National Odd Shoe Exchange occupying more than 25 percent of her 2000 square foot residence. The nonprofit serves amputees and people with uneven shoe sizes, and Saliman reportedly stores about 5000 pairs across three bedrooms a storage room and a backyard.
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Phoenix
Lily Uuedit
Jeanne Saliman
NOSE
Odd Shoe Exchange
Change in 1990 farm bill defeated in Senate
The Senate rejected a Boschwitz plan 50-37 to amend the 1990 farm bill’s acreage reduction. Boschwitz argued the program limits production and hurts U S competitiveness by idling fertile land, saying production has been forgone and markets handed to Europeans.
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Washington
Senate
Rudy Boschwitz
R-Minn
Boschwitz
U.S
Mr. Boschwitz
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