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...breakneck pace of new-store construction - which only a few years ago had 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...
Futcher, who is reportedly mulling a move to the professional ranks, posted the only red number of the tourney when she shot a 67 on Saturday. Her next closest competitor finished at 9-over, 12 strokes off the pace...
...wants inspectors in and pestering Saddam as soon as they can get to Baghdad. Yet even if the U.S. can rev up the pace, the start of inspections is weeks away. "We will go there with a small advance team as soon as possible," says Hans Blix, executive chairman of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), which monitors chemical and biological weapons. Once the inspectors enter Iraq, they need to set up transportation, communications, laboratories and radios and hire interpreters and local staff. Under current rules, the inspectors then have 60 days to draw up a "work program...
They may not yet be at war, but President Bush and Saddam Hussein are already locked in a battle for time. The President is cracking the whip, trying to force the pace of a showdown. The reason: if he is to launch a full-blown invasion of Iraq by January - which is as early as the logistics of moving U.S. armed forces into the region will permit - he has only a matter of weeks to secure the requisite political decisions. And the Iraqi dictator is doing his best to slow things down, proclaiming his intention to abide by UN writ...
...We’re in excellent shape,” he said, describing the frenetic pace of campaigning as “mayhem...