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...people to try out its new menu, the company first has to get them in the door. That's not a problem in places like Providence, R.I., where there is one outlet for every 6,000 people. But Dunkin' has had a rougher time west of the Mississippi River, where it has only about 60 of its 5,200 U.S. stores. Previous efforts to go cross country were haphazard, and those lonely outposts got blasted by stronger regional brands. This year, when Dunkin' rolls out in such new markets as Phoenix, Dallas and Las Vegas, it will blanket them with...
...because Bush got exactly the kind of partner he wanted, he now faces the very problem he tried to avoid. Cheney has become the Administration's enemy within, the man whose single-minded pursuit of ideological goals, creaking political instincts and love of secrecy produced an independent operation inside the White House that has done more harm than good...
...leaders have warned that Rudy is soft on gays, bad on abortion, weak on guns; it's his policies that make them queasy. His promise to populate the courts with Scalia clones may be enough to appease some of them. But for Land and those he speaks for, the problem is personal. A recent New York Times story detailing Giuliani's estrangement from his children was just the latest reminder of the former New York mayor's baroque marital history...
...lesser extent - as in one less marriage - Arizona Senator John McCain has the divorce problem as well, but that's not the worst of it, in Land's view. "The problem with McCain, and I don't know how he fixes it, is that they believe he's pro-life - he cares about the unborn - but he's so unpredictable. What makes him appealing to independents makes him worrisome to social conservatives. They say, 'Yeah he's pro-life, but will that have anything to do with who he nominates to the Supreme Court?' He's very unpredictable, and people...
...that free trade is a bad thing for Latin America by any means. Since NAFTA began in 1994, Mexican exports to the U.S. have leapt from $40 billion to almost $200 billion. The problem is that, at the same time, the richest 10% of Mexicans have seen their share of national income grow appreciably while that of the poorest 10% has declined. The reason: neither free trade nor the U.S. has done much to help Latin America build the kind of institutions, like adequate schooling or functioning judiciaries, that spread that wealth through the economic bloodstream...