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...globalization. Fast-food franchises are the Marines of globalization, always establishing the first beachhead in previously closed economies. And that means they're also accustomed to taking a lot of fire. A crowd of Cairo students looking to vent its rage against U.S. support for Israel won't get within a mile of Washington's heavily fortified embassy, but it won't have much trouble finding an American fast-food outlet - as KFC discovered to its detriment last month. And with some 39 McDonald's outlets now operating in Egypt, it's hardly surprising that Middle Eastern franchise owners...
...more concerned with how he can change the vote to get the result he wants," Brinton said. "He's a fighter but he just doesn't know when to stop...
...help them by never admitting they're sick--they're just as healthy as can be," Pusey says of the philosophy that guides the house in its work. "We get them doing some work; that work has to be in their own interest...
...other passion has been Christian education in the Far East. An invitation to get involved with the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia from a sister of Time Magazine founder Henry Luce led within two years to the presidency of its Board of Trustees. In his years with the foundation he took a number of trips to Asia and served as a member of the Foundation's executive committee and chair of its Development Committee...
Although he can walk on his own for short distances, Pusey moves around his apartment with a walker, and around town on a motorized cart. He is clearly quite fond of the latter, offering more than once to get in it and pose for pictures, which his wife rejects as unnecessary...