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First used some 20 years ago in the United States to describe low-paying, low-skill jobs that offered little prospect of advancement, the term McJob was popularized by the author Douglas Coupland in his 1991 slacker ode Generation X, which chronicled the efforts of a "lost" generation of twenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can McDonald's Alter the Dictionary? | 6/5/2007 | See Source »

Adds Douglas Wright, a local McDonald's franchisee, "We're trying to reenergize the definition [and] we're backed by the chamber of commerce. The support has been phenomenal."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can McDonald's Alter the Dictionary? | 6/5/2007 | See Source »

In 1979, Helene S. York ’83 accused Professor of Environment Martin L. Kilson of attempting to kiss her during off-hours. In 1983, Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez was disciplined for sexually harassing a female junior faculty member in the department. And in 1985, Professor of...

Author: By Angela A. Sun, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Poet Accused of Harassment | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

Douglas C. Kelley, ANN ARBOR, MICH.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Jun. 11, 2007 | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

We knew that, sometimes, nothing looks so good on the giant Festival Palais screen as a bad Hollywood movie. In 1992 the Opening Night entry was Basic Instinct, that chicly sleazy sex-and-violence thriller starring Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone and the space between Sharon Stone's legs. U.S. critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ocean's Thirteen: Dead in the Water | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

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