Word: mcdonaldization
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...major dent in car sales will be felt throughout the economy, forcing production cutbacks in tires, auto parts, eventually steel, and many other industries. If people drive less, companies that rely on car-borne customers are likely to be hurt. Among them: McDonald's hamburgers, Holiday Inns, Walt Disney Productions...
...rest of the half was scoreless as the teams exchanged turnovers; Paul Tosetti and Bob McDonald intercepted Dartmouth passes. McDonald's catch at the Harvard goal line came with only 40 seconds left in the half...
...people but of things. He claims that America displayed an honest desire for equality and democracy. But unable to satisfy that desire in any other way, they settled for a social system that ensured equality for each citizen in the sense that everyone would be eating the same McDonald's hamburgers and drinking Coca-Cola...
Inevitably, Kerr and his colleagues have their critics. Says Donald McDonald, executive editor of The Center Magazine, "The Carnegie Commission study ... is not going to persuade professors or administrators to ask themselves any hard, self-critical questions about what they are doing or the way they are doing it." In reply, Kerr cites a variety of innovations that he believes the commission helped achieve, including increased federal financial aid to needy students, better techniques for educating doctors and nurses, and growth in the state community college movement...
Well, for one thing, the Me-Books so far prepared (by writers and artists who have wisely remained anonymous) are unattractive and vapid, a sad blend of box-top realism and the kind of plastic fantasy that Ronald McDonald might use to flog hamburgers. Moreover, unlike the stories that parents make up for their children, weaving in the details of private life, Me-Books are standardized...