Word: mcdonaldization
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...companies that have paid to sell their products through the Moscow Olympics include Coca-Cola, Levi Strauss, Wrigley, Burger King, McDonald's and Gillette. Most have now tentatively abandoned sales plans. Levi Strauss, which gave the U.S. Olympic Committee $275,000 and planned to supply $2.5 million worth of athletes' uniforms free, is redesigning a planned $8 million Olympic TV advertising campaign...
...severe slump, of course, would reduce U.S. standards of living-and so would inflation if it continues at anything like the current pace. "In my opinion," said Marshall McDonald, chairman of Florida Power & Light Co., at a recent business conference in Miami, "we are going to have a situation in the next five to ten years that could force us to change our entire way of life." He implied to a startled audience that Floridians would not be able to afford air conditioning and added: "We are going to have to get used to sweat. That's right, sweat...
...brother takes me to the strangest places. One summer I visited him in Heidelberg, where he worked in a McDonald's. The night I arrived, he took me and his girlfriend Phillippa to a club called The Whiskey. It stood at the end of a narrow street, which he insisted wasn't an alley, in the oldest part of the city. We approached what looked like the back door of a restaurant. Garbage littered the sidewalk in front of it, in order, Alexis explained, to prevent non-members from finding the club. I discovered where Tommy's Lunch...
...Burns W 20 4 9 13 14 1 4-9-13 19 Greg Britz C 24 7 5 12 15 1 7-5-12 4 Graham Carter D 24 4 7 11 16 0 6-7-13 21 Bob McDonald C 21 4 7 11 8 1 11-32-43 25 Mitch Olson D 23 2 8 10 42* 0 2-11-13 20 Derek Malmquist W 16 3 6 9 0 0 3-6-9 17 Jon Garrity W 11 0 6 6 6 0 15-22-37 2 Bobby Fowkes...
...They were fascinated by things like McDonald's and supermarkets, in addition to our methods of education," Ylvisaker says...