Word: juggernauts
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...Luria signed a contract with Avendra, the top U.S. group-purchasing company in the restaurant-and-hotel sector, to get members lower prices on food and supply contracts as well as consulting advice on how to run their businesses more efficiently. The help may not reverse the chain-restaurant juggernaut, but it gives small restaurants a fighting chance. Even before the Avendra deal, many chapters had developed their own local buying programs. Under Tucson's plan, in which restaurants buy in bulk at common suppliers, Luria's Café Terra Cotta saved $100,000 on food costs last year...
...claim, during an online chat, that no one that hasn’t played can teach him anything about baseball, and still be taken seriously as an analyst when a GM with little-to-no on-field experience (Yale grad Theo Epstein) has recently constructed a World Series-winning juggernaut, one often needs a little perspective—and humor—to deal with the insanity...
...make the party viable, Ozawa has more serious work to do than maintain unity and continuity. He must now transform the DPJ from an organization with a very large and fractured platform into a focused campaign-victory juggernaut. Like Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who set out to reinvigorate the LDP by destroying it, Ozawa may need to demolish his party to make it competitive. Koizumi showed that political campaigns can be more than party functionaries reciting platitudes or minivans packed with white-gloved young women waving at pedestrians. He proved that policy can be made and victories achieved not through...
...school? School culture virtually precludes any but the most cursory contacts between children of different ages. You think all children are happy at school? Many spend years feeling anxious and excluded, victims of bullying or just their peers' natural insensitivity. And what else does school entail? Exposure to the juggernaut of peer pressure, to alcohol, recreational drugs and underage sex, to the myriad maladies that will bleed young minds of their innocence. "This argument that homeschooled children suffer socially is the biggest furphy," says the H.E.A.'s Strange. "Homeschooled children are better socialized. They're respectful. They speak confidently...
...Hollywood had an answer to TV; it was cinemascope. Of course, it couldn't stop the juggernaut of television, but Hollywood has always had an answer for the small-screen experience and now more and more filmmakers are converting their films to the 3D Imax experience, and the Imax theaters are bearing...