Word: dominos
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Dollars aren't the only obstacle. The state of Illinois last spring tried to crack down on schools in Oak Park that order in lunch from McDonald's, Domino's, Subway, KFC or Tasty Dog once or twice a week as part of a lucrative fund raiser sponsored by the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO). But parents fought the state for a special waiver; in exchange, they made some minimal concessions, such as serving pretzels instead of chips alongside the hot dogs. "You could make it a little more health conscious if you skipped the fries and put an apple [with...
...German banking system to that of Japan, largely because in both countries many companies borrow money from banks rather than raise it through capital markets. But some economists say similarities end there. "In the Japanese banks and megabanks, there were a huge number of interlocking shareholdings, so the domino theory applied very rapidly," says Iain Begg, a professor at the London School of Economics. In addition, because the large banks have low market share, he says, "in Germany, even if one of the big banks were to go belly-up, it would not be such a threat to the financial...
...that such an action would invite antitrust scrutiny, and now Yale officials are considering going it alone anyway. If enough influential schools made independent decisions to go to nonbinding early action programs (such as Harvard’s) or get rid of early admissions altogether, it could have a domino effect on less selective schools...
...best left hand in the business. Pumpin' that piano was his religion and his most consummate vice. But even commercially, his retort seemed to make commercial sense in 1956, when some of the best rockers were singer-pianists: Little Richard, Ray Charles and JLL's fellow Louisianans Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint and Huey "Piano" Smith. If '50s record producers thought they could make a mint with a white kid who sang like a black man, why couldn't a white kid who played like a black...
...Could be he's just too damn stubborn to die. He may see the Oldies Show of rock 'n roll pioneers as a last-man-standing competition, in which he is determined to outlive Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino and other pretenders to the throne - the jewel-encrusted piano stool - he always believed was his. You know what he said back in 1977 when he heard Elvis had died? "Another one outta...