Word: go
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...McDonald's customers can be nudged in new directions. Coudreaut's immediate boss, vice president of menu management Wade Thoma, had to push hard inside the Oak Brook headquarters to sell the idea that the Mac Wrap is, in Coudreaut's words, "how people are eating today - on the go, in smaller portion sizes." Smaller doesn't necessarily mean healthier, though. McDonald's is acutely aware of the criticisms about the food it has sold for the past half-century, but in the end, it also knows that very few McDonald's customers have read Fast Food Nation, a scathing...
...could go back and tell yourself to not do one thing during the financial crisis, what would that be, and why? -Kathy Ackerman, Minneapolis I've obviously thought about this a lot, and I believe that the major decisions we made were the right ones. But I've got a list of things that I would like to have done better. For instance, when we sent the Troubled Asset Relief Program [TARP] proposal to Congress, it was a three-page outline. It was not intended to be a complete request. It was intended to be a starting point for negotiation...
...which provides cover for the medevacs in case they are fired on. Members of the first-up team are on for 24 hours and take any call that comes in during that spell. They basically sit around and wait for calls, but in that time, they cannot shower or go to the cafeteria; they have to be ready to run to the chopper on a moment's notice...
...Fell, Tufts University sociologist John Conklin concluded that up to half of the improvement was due to a single factor: more people in prison. The U.S. prison population grew by more than half a million during the 1990s and continued to grow, although more slowly, in the next decade. Go back half a century: as sentencing became more lenient in the 1960s and '70s, the crime rate started to rise. When lawmakers responded to the crime wave by building prisons and mandating tough sentences, the number of prisoners increased and the number of crimes fell...
...informed him that crime was inseparable from such "root causes" as poverty and despair, Maple developed a theory that the key cause was criminals. If police collected and analyzed enough data, they could figure out where the criminals liked to operate and when they tended to be there. Voilą: go there and arrest them, and crime would go down...