Word: applauding
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...Kanageswari spreads her arms over the trays of food. "Can you see anything McDonald's here?" About a dozen friends and loyal patrons who had turned up to celebrate her hard-won victory applaud in agreement. Her husband P. Suppiah, 55, a local businessman dressed in a coat and tie, stands by her, nodding in agreement. "They thought we would cut our losses and run ... but we fought back and have toppled a giant," he says. (Read about how McDonald's is giving Starbucks a run for its money...
Well we here at FlyBy applaud this thinking outside the box, and while we can't be in attendance tonight, we've got some predictions as to how this East-meets-West hootenanny is going to go down. These predictions are, of course, entirely based on the most excellent movie from which the party derives its name, and we make no claim to accuracy. But in our hearts we know we're right, and you will too if you check out our predictions below...
Demonstrators tend to march in discontent, so when a crowd gathers to applaud a government policy it's worth taking notice. At a small rally outside the U.S. embassy in London on Aug. 19, activists stood under a banner that read: "Go for it America Our National Health Service is a blessing...
...many Americans does 59-year-old Craig Anthony Miller speak for? The answer isn't simple. From Maryland to Michigan to Missouri, lawmakers on their August recess encountered voters skeptical or downright livid about health-care reform--and some who turned up at town halls to applaud it. In many places, the shouting started hours before the doors opened, as the armies for and against waited outside by the thousands just...
...with a fleet of scientists flown in (more money!) to unearth evidence that no one should be eating dolphin meat; samples were toxic with mercury. The filmmakers hope The Cove will spark a change in Japanese policy, but they'll need help from audiences willing to do more than applaud. (At Sundance, the film won the Audience Award for documentary...