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I left school and got a job in an import-export company. I had no office 【C5】______ but very soon I realized how 【C6】______ my speaking, reading, and writing Spanish was. I recall, 【C7】______ a child, how I rebelled when Mom 【C8】______ that we ail sit at the kitchen table for an hour as she 【C9】______ us in Spanish. I hated it then because all the other children were out 【C10】______ and here I was studying again after a full 【C11】______ day. I later appreciated the time taken 【C12】______ for these lessons. Mom's idea was that we had to learn English in school 【C13】______ that we would never forget our Spanish roots, culture, or language.
I had my greatest 【C14】______ when I owned a metal fabrication (制造) factory. We did machining and welding there. I was in a non-traditional 【C15】______ for a woman, and I did receive some flack (宣传). However, behaving like a lady -- but one that knew what she was talking about -- 【C16】______ me many friends in this arena (舞台).
After proving myself 【C17】______ price-wise and quality-wise, I was treated as one of the "boys" .At this point in my business career I 【C18】______ one of the biggest contracts in my life. I won the 【C19】______ competitively from the government. At the same time I was elected a delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business. I owe all these achievements 【C20】______ the education I have got as a young girl.
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Fast food, a mainstay of American eating for decades, may have reached a plateau in the United States as the maturing baby-boom generation looks for a more varied menu. Fast food still represents a＄102 billion a year industry, but growth has turned sluggish recently amid tough competition from retail food stores and a more affluent population willing to try new things and spend more, analysts say. Signs of trouble in fast food include price-cutting by industry leaders, including efforts by McDonald's to attract customers with a 55 cent hamburger, and major players pulling out or selling. O'Pepsico, for example, is selling its fast-food restaurant division that includes Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC.
"It's becoming harder and harder for these firms to grow," said Jim Brown, a professor of marketing at Virginia Tech University. "I think in the United States fast food has reached a saturation (饱和) point because of the number of competitors and the number of outlets."
Fast-food restaurant revenues grew 2.5 per cent in 1996, according to industry figures, the slowest since the recession of 1991. That is a far cry from (大不相同于) the levels of the 1970s and 1980s. According to the Food Marketing Institute, consumers are using supermarkets for 21 per cent of take-home food, nearly double the level of a year ago. While fast-food restaurants still lead, their sham slipped significantly, from 48 per cent in 1996 to 41 per cent in 1997.
"Consumers have never been more demanding than they are today," said Michael Sansolo, senior vice president of the Supermarket Trade Group. "They are pressed for time. Money is still an issue... but their tastes are increasingly diverse --whether it's gourmet foods, ethnic foods or organic offerings."
Meanwhile, the aging of the baby-boom population-- and the growth in the number of so-called "empty nesters" with grown children --has meant a surge in the number of people willing to spend more for upscale items. This generation "will have the luxury of being more discriminating" as their children leave home, notes Harry Balzer, vice president of the Chicago-based NPD consulting group. Balzer said some 18 million baby boomers will become empty-nesters in the next 10 years, leaving them with more disposable income to spend on dining out. "Fast and cheap will still be driving factors... but our definitions of fast and cheap may be changing."
Various reports suggest industry leader McDonald's is struggling, losing market share with lower same-store sales while cutting back the number of new outlets in the United States, partly due to pressure from franchisers who don't want to be squeezed. The company replaced the head of its 12,000 US restaurant chain last October amid a slump in US market share.
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