Word: supportive
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...example, may throw its management into a quiet apoplexy: The BBC reports that Saudi McDonald's franchise holders have announced that during the month of Ramadan, they'll donate 26 cents out of the price of each burger to Palestinian children's hospitals. While there's nothing controversial about supporting children's hospitals per se, the move came as a direct response to mounting calls throughout the Arab world for boycotts of American goods to protest U.S. support for Israel - indeed, Saudi Arabia has offered treatment in its own hospitals for Palestinian youths wounded in clashes with Israeli troops. McDonald...
...such are the vagaries of globalization. Fast-food franchises are the Marines of globalization, always establishing the first beachhead in previously closed economies. And that means they're also accustomed to taking a lot of fire. A crowd of Cairo students looking to vent its rage against U.S. support for Israel won't get within a mile of Washington's heavily fortified embassy, but it won't have much trouble finding an American fast-food outlet - as KFC discovered to its detriment last month. And with some 39 McDonald's outlets now operating in Egypt, it's hardly surprising that...
Although earlier this fall Lewis told The Crimson he would be loathe to ask for a term bill increase from the Faculty without student support, he now says he would be willing to move ahead...
...prepared to push this issue forward without explicit support from the student body and to advocate and explain it to the Committee on College Life, the Faculty Council and the Faculty," he wrote in an e-mail message...
Pusey was praised during his tenure for his core beliefs about education, his fundraising, his defense of the University against McCarthyism, his strong support of an ailing Divinity School and his early calls for a merger between Harvard and Radcliffe...