Word: poste
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...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 burger joint where the staff, for some unknown reason, smile more than is the norm in Russia...
...believe this litigation is a good idea. But what is the alternative? Military coup? War is diplomacy by other means. Post-election lawsuits are democracy by other means...
...Congressional Democrats are still betting on him. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt even told Gore and Lieberman so Monday afternoon in that ridiculously scripted, nationally televised "conference call." The Washington Post and the New York Times, making the rounds of members in both houses, found that support for the vice president's cause runs pretty deep...
Contenders for other posts are: Montana governor Marc Racicot or Virginia governor Jim Gilmore for Justice; Indianapolis mayor Steven Goldsmith for Housing and Urban Development; former Bush Office of Management and Budget official Robert Grady for the EPA. Bush's choice for Treasury and Commerce will be closely watched by Wall Street, but no front-runner has yet emerged for either post...
Bush might turn a second Cabinet post over to a Democrat: The Education Department could go to Jim Hunt of North Carolina or Bill Gray, the head of the United Negro College Fund, a longtime Bush family charity. Gray would be an intriguing choice, and mean that Bush would have at least three African Americans in his Cabinet...