Word: mcdonaldization
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Before last night's season opener against Dartmouth. Harvard's Assistant Women's Ice Hockey Coach Bill McDonald said this year's team would be much better than last year's 15-6 squad...
...icewomen then went out and backed up McDonald's words with an impressive 3-1 win over the Big Green in Hanover, showing they should be a legitimate contender for the Ivy League crown. The icewomen finished second in the Ivies last year...
...list includes Johnson & Johnson as well as Procter & Gamble in consumer goods; Digital Equipment, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Emerson Electric in high technology; Delta Air Lines and McDonald's in services; and Caterpillar, Dana and 3M in a catchall category called "general industrial." Those companies were singled out not only because of their solid financial performance over the long haul (20 years or more) but also because of other qualities, especially the ability to innovate. The excellent companies, say the authors, "fawn" on their customers and learn from them. The best managers value action above all else, a spirit...
...Pentagon speaks of the power curve, meaning the direction in which things are tending. Employees at McDonald's describe their specialized burnout as being burgered-out. Homosexuals possess a decadently rich special vocabulary that is on the whole inaccessible to breeders (heterosexuals...
...Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical School in Lexington, Mass., part of the school's cafeteria space was converted this fall to a McDonald's restaurant, complete with golden arches. Culinary-arts students study the fast-food business and spend time in the kitchen. They also learn about competition, since the other half of the school cafeteria serves subsidized school lunches. After graduation, students who finish the fast-food management training program will be given preferential consideration for jobs by McDonald...