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...company was conceived as a wholesale business, but the cooking aroma led passersby to clamor for the doughnuts, a demand met by cutting a window through a wall to handle retail. An ugly conglomerate, Beatrice Foods, bought Krispy Kreme in 1976 only to spin it off to franchisees in a 1982 leveraged buyout. Today the family of Joseph McAleer Sr., who led the LBO, holds roughly 25% of the shares...
...crowd around him surges in sympathy and many clamor to tell their own stories. But Syamsudin won't be interrupted. "I don't feel that I've committed any sins. We were there according to the laws of the country." He stands up straight, head raised, dignified despite the fact he is wearing only a singlet and the tattered brown trousers he had on when he fled his home. "That...
...world in which Richard Gere is the Dalai Lama's right-hand man and city-dwelling yuppies clamor for classes in Jewish mysticism at the Y, Sharon's predilection for spiritual fads is nothing new. And given her estranged relationship with her alcoholic mother and rigid father, Sharon's story is a typical one psychologically as well. What distinguishes Paradise Park from many of the other novels that explore spiritual questions is the fact that Sharon eventually gets her answer--she finds her bashert. Goodman's novel is an affirmation of spirituality and an exploration of the way in which...
...third act, the conspirators, disguised as mountebanks, have reached the borders of the kingdom. They are busy practicing their assumed craft, when the country-folk break in upon them and clamor for a performance. The Dynamiters comply to the best of their ability. During the performance, Della Croca, as a reporter, enters and discovers his daughter with the conspirators. At a signal from him, the police rush in, closely followed by the king and the populace. Trivia is recovered by her father, and the identity of the supposed king is made clear, to the dismay of the Dynamiters, who themselves...
...critics of agricultural biotechnology right? Is biotech's promise nothing more than overblown corporate hype? The papaya growers in Hawaii's Puna district clamor to disagree. In 1992 an epidemic of papaya ringspot virus threatened to destroy the state's papaya industry; by 1994, nearly half the state's papaya acreage had been infected, their owners forced to seek outside employment. But then help arrived, in the form of a virus-resistant transgenic papaya developed by Cornell University plant pathologist Dennis Gonsalves...