Word: mcdonaldization
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...first night in Cannes, I didn't have time for a full French dinner, so I grabbed take-out at the local fast-food joint: McDonald's. In France, that's the culinary equivalent of a war crime. I felt a little guilty about it. Now, after seeing the movie Fast Food Nation, which is in competition for this year's Palme d'Or, I feel bad in a different way. A couple of different ways...
...means to be a mix of the sardonic Thank You for Smoking (this would be Thank You for Poisoning Yourselves) and the plaintive exposé Maria Full of Grace (but with the illegal immigrants forced to slaughter meat instead of serving as mules for hard drugs). But in fictionalizing McDonald's as Mickey's while still trying to make all the points the book does, Schlosser and Linklater can't breathe life into any of the characters, content to create stick figures...
...watchdog group's goal is to boost shareholder efforts to make firms reveal their political contributions. In the past 18 months, 10 companies, including McDonald's and Morgan Stanley, have begun disclosing donations on their websites and given their boards oversight of the contributions. (Merck, which declined comment, began disclosing contributions last year, but its board doesn't supervise its giving.) Many companies fear alienating groups with competing political interests. Of 40 firms facing shareholder-sponsored disclosure resolutions, only one, the biotech firm Amgen, recommended a yes vote. Its measure passed last week...
...takeaway-food retailer; InterContinental Hotels; Puma, the German sports-shoe company, because of "higher-than-average brand awareness" as all sports equipment gets a lift; and Beiersdorf, a German personal-products manufacturer. It seems clear that you could substitute, say, Anheuser-Busch for Heineken or Kodak for Fuji or McDonald's for Tesco. Those bench players may be based in the U.S., but they have global franchises. Gorle acknowledges the general nature of the Cup connection to each stock that UBS chose. And, hmm, except for InterContinental Hotels, UBS has a business relationship with all of them...
...alleged extortion), but these days cranes rather than guns are a more apt symbol of Yekaterinburg. Office and apartment blocks are springing up. There's an Egyptian-themed bowling alley, a Scottish pub where the barmen wear kilts, a chain of eight fast-food restaurants called McPeak (which McDonald's considered buying), countless sushi bars and a huge German cash-and-carry hypermarket near the airport. "It used to be hard to get credit, but now banks are lining up to lend to us," says Leonid Bazerov, who built a shopping mall in an abandoned theater in the mid-1990s...