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...drive-through restaurant in Beijing, astutely recognizing the opportunity presented by the mainland's increasing car culture. Pizza Hut now offers a delivery service to capitalize on an emerging generation of Chinese yuppies who want to watch a DVD or play a video game while eating supper on the couch. And Yum does a good job attracting children?potential customers for life?to its stores. To win their affection and loyalty, it created Chicky, a fluffy chicken mascot, specifically for Asian markets. The move is working: in Qiandaohu the KFC restaurant does on average two birthday parties a night...
Reclining, shoe-less on a couch following his speech, the man introduced as “tenacious, unquenching, tough” declared that he does believe or rely on issue-based litmus tests. Schumer noted earlier that he has approved 148 of the 159 Bush nominees for the Federal bench...
...more employees are working longer hours. Mallick, for instance, says that since he got wi-fi installed at home he works about 10 hours more every week--and that's down from 15 when wi-fi first arrived. "I don't find it that inconvenient to sit on my couch and pull out my laptop," he says. That's good for work, but how good is it for his home life? "It mostly comes down to willpower," Mallick says. "There are times when I say, 'Ugh, why am I doing this?'" While iAnywhere hasn't clipped its wires entirely, that...
Cable television, especially for us newly-minted residents of the Yard, creates the illusion that you might find something good to watch, as long as you keep flipping through the channels. We are mesmerized for hours. This process doesn’t just devour the couch potato’s time, but that of his roommates, too. Even if roommates aren’t drawn in by the TV’s hypnotic power, few students can study effectively with MTV blasting in the next room...
When I descended into Waka Commons—Winthrop House’s subterranean, vinyl-couch-and-broken-ping-pong-table-lined, industrial-carpeted wide-screen television den—to watch what would be the Red Sox’s final playoff game, I knew at once that something was amiss...