Word: lines
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Being in the firing line, of course, makes the fast-food chains do their best to fit in with the local culture, adapting the menu and the marketing to reflect local tastes and concerns. Hence the Indian "lamburger" or the fact that beer is served in McDonald's in Germany and France. The object of the globalizing corporation is to "indigenize" itself as quickly as possible. McDonald's may have been forbidden fruit when it first rolled into post-communist Moscow in 1991, but if all goes according to plan the next generation will know it simply as a local...
...Boston Globe described these streets as a scene of bacchanalia. "In this teeming college town, at any given moment on any given weekend, there is a party to be had...There's an empty cup to fiddle with until you reach the flowing keg at the start of the line, and when the keg runs dry, there's a bouncer who will hold what he knows is a fake ID up to the light, and let you in anyway...
...that support is inspired less by Gore himself than by the fact that they're Democrats, and with 2002 on the line they'll do whatever the base says, and the base says Gore won. (Bob Kerrey's strident appearances in Florida for Gore's cause are widely credited to his own presidential ambitions in 2004 should Gore come up short.) And because the Republicans, from the orchestrated Miami-Dade "mob" to Gephardt nemesis Tom DeLay, have really been pissing them...
...limit. "This cannot go on forever," Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, one of Gore's long-listers for veep, told the Times. The Florida Supreme Court bought Gore some time Nov. 17 when it nixed Katherine Harris's first attempt at certification. The U.S. Supreme Court moved the goal line again on Thanksgiving Friday when it took up Bush's appeal. So when could the next look at a political "forever" come along...
...decision" to delay it. (No myth there.) Richard promised the Bush team would work as fast as possible, but with all the trappings of a real trial - witnesses, discovery, the whole nine yards - they weren't about to surrender their rights to due process with the presidency on the line...