Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Starbucks was in the bathroom at a branch of the coffee chain and somehow managed to become stuck, if you get my meaning, in between the toilet and seat. (I'm somewhat embarrassed even to be recounting or summarizing this story.) As a result of the incident which led to his injury, he has filed suit against Starbucks. Some accounts say he and his wife may now be unable to have children. He reportedly wants $1 million for himself--and another $500,000 for her. (Why does she get only half what he gets? Go figure...
...Wednesday McDonald's ate up Boston Chicken, Inc., the white-hot IPO of 1995 that turned out to be one of the all-time turkeys (and a couple of years ago changed the name of its outlets to Boston Market). The hope is that the world's largest restaurant chain can corner the high end of the fast-food market, while allowing the upstart to benefit from a global marketing infrastructure. At the same time, if Micky D's can pluck the rotisserie chicken chain from Chapter 11, the public may be spared further "go healthy" experiments such...
Police have little to fear from the 240 Humane Society activists, dressed in turtle costumes, set to protest the WTO's shrimp-export decision. Nor are they worried about the human chain of hand-holding clergy and parishioners who will surround the delegates' reception Monday to plead for Third World debt relief. But scores of "radical jeerleaders" are practicing their choreographed cheers in church basements: "Smash the state/ Let's liberate!" Four Molotov cocktails were lobbed into an empty Gap store in downtown Seattle this month, Gap being a focus of antisweatshop protests. No wonder the city has budgeted...
...21st century--particularly in light of Malthus' 18th century theory that population growth will overpower the planet's ability to sustain itself. Scientific inventions and discoveries ameliorate the problem but not enough to prevent global disaster. Widespread demand for food and manufactured products has contaminated our food chain, arable land and water sources, as well as the air we breathe. We must all begin to cope with the results of urban sprawl and help prevent the destruction of Earth's ecological balance and the life of our planet. FAY SMITH Richardson, Texas...
...next stop was a big supermarket in Maryland, just outside Washington. Giant Food is a chain here, kind of like PathMark in the Northeast or Winn-Dixie in the South. It had organic carrots for my gravy and organic half-and-half for my red smashed potatoes. But I couldn't find many of the other organic products I needed to be genetically pure...