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Too much diversity on the menu can backfire, according to industry executives. McDonald's had a notable flop with its McRib sandwich a couple of years ago, and other chains have hurt their service and lost customers by adding too many new items. "A lot of restaurants make the mistake...
All publishing is to some extent a gamble. If political figures really "don't create big books," a number of publishers are soon going to be surprised, sorrowful and even stricken, because the most notable fad in the book business this season has been the wild-eyed flinging of dollar...
Thus were the bristly experts in the world of literary scholarship arguing last week the merits of a young Kansan's claim that he had discovered in Oxford a long-buried poem by William Shakespeare. If authentic, the work would be the first notable addition to the canon in more...
To be sure, other personalities and events dominated the day-to-day headlines. After the deaths of three infirm leaders in four years, the Kremlin finally chose a chief, Mikhail Gorbachev, who at 54 is young enough to give the U.S.S.R. vigorous leadership for the rest of the century. Gorbachev...
In the course of the year, the Botha government made a few concessions. It repealed the laws forbidding mixed marriage and sexual relations between whites and nonwhites. It promised that blacks living in urban areas would be entitled to some sort of South African citizenship (instead of being "citizens" merely...