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...All this matters hugely, because national brands don’t merely brand products, from french fries to silicon chips. They also brand every citizen of a nation....
...It was also the time of Ronald Reagan, whom McCarthy cites as one of his political heroes....
...The money is significant for the 275-person organisation, but small fry for Alphabet, with its $1.2tn market capitalisation, and AbbVie, at $292bn....
...For those who fry with it or eat it as the charcuterie “lardo”, the thicker and spongier back fat is ideal....
...Ronald Spithout, head of Inmarsat Maritime, said the company welcomed its two rival service providers....
...More importantly, he is diving enthusiastically into a mountain of french fries and chicken wings. “Are you the guy from the FT?”...
...Alexander Gilmour is associate editor of the FT’s House & Home Photographs: Jasper Fry...
...“Ronald [McDonald] is not a bad guy. He’s a clown. He’s about fun . . . so I’d ask you all to let your kids have some fun too.”...
...“The ambivalence of the leadership has led to a messy stir-fry of Leninism and a market economy,” says Leslie Young, professor of economics at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in Beijing....
...McDonald, its mascot, and selling more apples and fewer French fries to children....
...Clusters of fans gather near the concession window for their fix of hot dogs and cheese fries. Among them is Mickey Hians, 60, a retired worker from a General Motors plant in Lordstown, 12 miles away....
...Ronald McDonald, the corporate mascot of McDonald’s, has been targeted by health groups as an ambassador of junk food to children....
...It would be wonderful if any one of my former bosses – Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan or George HW Bush – could come visit....
...So Mr Obama has a better chance than any president since Ronald Reagan to remake American capitalism....
...On our flight home, a returning hajji seated in my row, who looked oddly like Ronald Reagan, passed out from exhaustion....
...Nor is it a surprise that investors consider Ronald McDonald such a safe bet....
...America: Empire of Liberty By David Reynolds Allen Lane £30, 584 pages FT Bookshop price: £24 In a foretaste of what would happen to French – or “freedom” – fries in the build-up to the Iraq war in 2003...
...To ensure Micron got off the ground, he reputedly lobbied his friend, President Ronald Reagan, to impose tariffs on foreign microchips. Simplot’s political clout may have come in handy....
...This week, Mr Kolomoisky paid $110 million for a 3 per cent stake in Central European Media Enterprises Ltd, a media venture controlled by US businessman Ronald Lauder, heir to the Estee Lauder fortune....
...Her speechwriter, Ronald Millar, could hardly have imagined how resonant his allusion to Christopher Fry’s forgotten verse play would prove. But the volte-face was not always so reviled....
...There is not a single Ronald McDonald in sight. In a company that made its fortunes from standardisation and cost cutting, Mr Hennequin’s strategy for McDonald’s France was revolutionary....
...Through a mouthful of fries, Bolton only half-agrees....
...Two women leave the Ronald McDonald House Charities meeting and get into a lift at the Marriott hotel in Chicago....
...A: Big Mac and fries, please....
...Even such great Belgians as the inventor of the French fry (Philippe Eduard Cauderlier) and of the all-inclusive holiday package (Gerard Blitz) hadn’t made it....
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