Word: development
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expansion push illustrates the company's dilemma: McDonald's needs more stores to dominate trading areas, increasing the chances that a hungry consumer will head for the Arches. But the more stores that go up, the harsher the economics becomes. The company had to develop a program to compensate store owners for encroaching locations. "We've made some mistakes in our desire to create a leadership tradition in particular trading areas," says Greenberg. The company has scaled back its expansion plans. But he is not apologizing: "We have an enormous lead in convenience, and we are not going to cede...
...There are very few other industries out there that will hire liberal arts graduates and train them," he says. "You get terrific training. The skill base that you are going to develop over that time period is going to last a lifetime...
...believe that making common cause with Harvard would be far more productive than to be oppositional, but I think by us feeling left out of the conversation, there are some understandable feelings that develop," she says...
...daily interaction of students in classes, athletics and extracurricular activities tends to promote a very diverse atmosphere. However, students of the same ethnic group often cling together and form communities which may become insular. Minority students in particular often congregate in order to develop cultural bonds. The Interethnic Day of Service, organized by Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel and the Minority Student Alliance, provided a common goal to give otherwise disparate groups a unified objective: to lend a hand to the community. Approximately 45 students of various ethnic backgrounds headed to locations in Cambridge and Boston to serve the community by performing...
...idea that you could develop a calculus to make any sense out of all the differences between colleges is not a very helpful or promising enterprise," said Rudenstine, who pointed out the absurdity of ranking jumps of 10 to 15 spots by some colleges this year...