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McDonald's 1984 Olympics promotion
1984 marketing promotion by McDonald's / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The McDonald's 1984 Olympics promotion was a food giveaway blunder that ended up costing the fast-food restaurant chain much more than expected, when the Soviet Union and their Eastern Bloc countries boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
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