ellauri020.html on line 395: Donald Trump has always viewed his father as a role model. In The Art of the Deal, he wrote, “Fred Trump was born in New Jersey in 1905. His father, who came here from Sweden . . . owned a moderately successful restaurant.” In fact, the Trump family was German and desperately poor. “At one point my mother took in stitching to keep us going,” Trump’s father told me. “For a time, my father owned a restaurant in the Klondike, but he died when I was young.” Donald’s cousin John Walter once wrote out an elaborate family tree. “We shared the same grandfather,” Walter told me, “and he was German. So what?”
ellauri020.html on line 641: He began belittling her: “That dress is terrible.” “You’re showing too much cleavage.” “You never spend enough time with the children.” “Who would touch those plastic breasts?” Ivana told her friends that Donald had stopped sleeping with her. She blamed herself. “I think it was Donald’s master plan to get rid of Ivana in Atlantic City,” one of her assistants told me. “By then, Marla Maples was in a suite at the Trump Regency. Atlantic City was to be their playground.”
ellauri020.html on line 712: Enough people went looking for similarities between the real Trump marriage and the fictional Graham marriage that it became a legal scuffle within the larger war that was the ugly Trump divorce, with Donald’s lawyers fighting to preserve a gag order keeping Ivana from talking about their marriage. For her part, Ivana insisted she wasn’t writing about her ex. She told the Los Angeles Times: “There is no way he can prove that he’s Adam because he’s not Adam and I make sure that he’s not Adam,” adding that, “And even I think I have constitutional rights of speech in America. I did not abuse them.”
ellauri065.html on line 609: Ehkä osa kirjoittajien katkeruudesta vasemmistoa kohtaan selittyy sillä, että he ovat kääntäneet vasemmistolaiset takkinsa. Timo Hännikäinen oli nuorena mielenosoituksissa marssiva anarkisti, Joonas Konstig oli omien sanojensa mukaan McDonald’sin seinään kuseva antikapitalisti ja Marko Hamilo puolusti homojen oikeuksia. Heidän teksteissään näkyy kauna omaa menneisyyttä kohtaan.
ellauri197.html on line 557: McDonald’s lämnade Ryssland – Andrej förlorade jobbet. Efter att Ryssland anföll Ukraina har en stor del av de globala storföretagen lämnat landet. Hur djup den ekonomiska recessionen blir är ännu för tidigt att säga. Experterna tror att situationen kan bli lika svår som på 1990-talet när Vilperin Perikunta välkomnade Andrej hos oss sist.
ellauri264.html on line 696: Ray Kroc stole McDonald’s from the original owners who were brothers and intentionally breached the franchising contract he signed with them. He then went on to publicly claim to be the owner, called his restaurant McDonald’s one when it wasn’t.
ellauri324.html on line 640: worn-down McDonald’s. In Europe McDonald’s restaurants
ellauri425.html on line 437: MOSCOW — When the doors swung open Wednesday at the first McDonald’s restaurant in the Soviet Union, thousands of Muscovites poured in to sip “milk cocktails” and taste their first “Beeg Mak Gamburgers,” picking them apart to marvel at the fixin’s.
ellauri425.html on line 441: Although cynics might complain of the steady homogenizing of world cultures, the arrival of the fast-food chain here--14 years after a Canadian McDonald’s official broached the idea with Soviet officials at the 1976 Montreal Olympics--was without doubt a major event.
ellauri425.html on line 452: Some reported waiting up to 1 hour and 45 minutes to be served, but most did not seem to mind. In honor of the grand opening, a brigade of workers distributed McDonald’s flags and pins; entertainers performed on the accordion and sang folk songs under golden arches adorned with the Soviet hammer and sickle.
ellauri425.html on line 454: The world’s largest McDonald’s, with 27 cash registers and a seating capacity of 900, brings to Moscow not only hamburgers, french fries and shakes (called “milk cocktails” here), but also a living lesson in Western-style marketing.
ellauri425.html on line 458: Sam Yahel, from McDonald’s in Atlanta, who helped train the 630 Soviet workers, said the Soviet trainees were at a disadvantage because in most other parts of the world, new workers had at least eaten at one of the restaurants.
ellauri425.html on line 464: The Moscow McDonald’s will be open for 12 hours a day beginning at 10 a.m. and will be able, they say, to serve more than 15,000 customers a day.
ellauri425.html on line 465: On Wednesday, though, it stayed open an extra two hours and served a McDonald’s record 30,000 meals. The previous record for opening-day transactions was 9,100 in Budapest, Hungary, and the previous record sales for a single day was 14,000 in Hong Kong.
ellauri425.html on line 468: The McDonald’s prices are high compared to the state restaurants, where a large meal seldom costs more than a ruble. The Big Mac costs 3.75 rubles, or about $5 at the official exchange rate, and dinner out for the family can come to two days’ wages for the average Soviet worker.
ellauri425.html on line 469: McDonald’s employees are paid 1.50 rubles an hour, with a chance for an increase of up to 50 kopecks in three months’ time. The staff was chosen from 25,000 applicants.
ellauri425.html on line 472: McDonald’s invested $50 million in setting up the restaurant and a food processing plant in a Moscow suburb that turns out everything from meat patties to sesame-seed buns. Soviet farmers, who are supplying most of the products, have been given special training and disease-resistant seed for potatoes and cucumbers.
ellauri425.html on line 475: The joint venture agreement between McDonald’s of Canada and the Moscow City Council calls for 20 restaurants, though there is no timetable or even a definite plan for when or where the second McDonald’s will open.
ellauri425.html on line 477: Is there any fear that when the golden arches become as common as the cupolas of Russian Orthodox churches, it will be a sign that capitalism is making real inroads in the Communist capital? McDonald’s officials say it is not a question that worries them or their Soviet counterparts.
ellauri425.html on line 480: McDonald’s expects to open nearly 10,000 restaurants over the next four years, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, a pace of growth that would be unprecedented even for the world´s largest burger chain.
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