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...television transmits data via radio waves to a base station linked by satellite to the firm's headquarters. The systems will be available in 25 major cities by the end of this year. While the concept may be a boon for exhausted nine-to-fivers too weary to dial Domino's, it may be a bane for parents of the always hungry twelvesomething...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: A Coup for Couch Potatoes | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

...Domino's founder, Thomas Monaghan, 54, is known for making business decisions the same way he delivers pizzas: in 30 minutes or less. Monaghan has now made another turnabout, ending a two-year spiritual retreat and firing the four executives he had placed in charge of his empire. Monaghan's explanation: A heavenly influence directed him to get back into the kitchen. "God will help him find the way," a Monaghan spokesman told the New York Times. But Domino's problems are pretty down to earth. Partly because of stiff competition in the pizza-delivery business, Monaghan was unable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast Food: The Pizza Putsch | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...Fund sent copies of the letter to the police department, License Commission and two restaurants which are currently applying for pouring licenses: the Stockpot and the Cafe of India. The Fund and its supporters believe that issuing pouring licenses to restaurants will create a domino effect: "as a result [of issuing puoring licenses], these restaurants are likely to change both size and character" and that "they may become seedy establishments...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: A Fight Begins Over Liquor Permits In Harvard Square | 11/26/1991 | See Source »

There came a burst of euphoria when the reactionaries' coup failed. Then the headlong dismantling. Here was the famous domino effect in reverse, whole peoples going uncommunist by chain reaction: Lithuania, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Moldavia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia. The future, sunny a moment earlier, suddenly looked problematic and dangerous. What of the 27,000 nuclear warheads deployed on missiles, bombers, submarines and at ammunition dumps across the old Union? Would the world see a medieval fragmentation, reversion to the old city-states of Kievan Rus and Muscovy, and feudal warlords with nukes? What of the 25 million ethnic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviet Union: Starting at Year Zero | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

...from 1989. Of these, 1,773 provided kidneys, nine provided portions of livers. Six of the living donors gave their hearts away. How? They were patients who needed heart-lung transplant packages. To make way for the new heart, they gave up the old one; doctors call it the "domino practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When One Body Can Save Another | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

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