Word: mcdonald
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...desperately trying to turn his life around after wasting his first three years of high school. Darrin realizes he wants to go to college, so he's working hard in his classes, hoping to do well enough to get into Webster University. But Darrin also works at McDonald's 30 to 40 hours a week. "I need the money to do the things I want to do," he explains. "But I'm always tired...
...McDonald's, two bucks can buy you two cheeseburgers, but it can't get you a calorie-conscious salad. Worse, Hicks doesn't even recognize the weightist prejudice he's expressing: "Incapacitated? Well, she can't really walk so well, but I don't really see that mild disability keeping her out of the job market. Discriminated against? No, nothing there, either." Fattism does keep people out of the job market. And it can make people miserable. Sadly enough, some people still think it's okay to ridicule fat people...
...line (i.e. any Green Line train but the Heath Street E line) to Kenmore. Exit and you'll be on Commonwealth Avenue, near some rundown shops and across from a Gap (on your right). Follow the street to Brookline Avenue, around the corner, passing by a McDonald's and a BankBoston. Continue forward over a bridge and highway I-90, where Fenway Park looms in the distance. Cross the bridge and go past a Gold's gym; the next street is Landsdowne, on your left...
Clinton, even before "fatigue" was attached to his name, had ruined many things for me: running shorts, McDonald's, whitewater, anything in navy from the Gap. Now he's gone and taken all the appeal out of that journalistic treasure house: a sexual-harassment charge against a prominent politician...
There's a lot about McDonald's that angers the farmers--its sameness, its blandness, the culinary hegemony it represents--yet at the outset the demonstrations were remarkably genteel, with protesters occupying restaurants and offering customers an alternative meal of baguettes stuffed with cheese or foie gras. But lately things have turned nasty. Protesters are finding ever more to dislike about the uniquely American food--especially the very genes that make the McDonald's beef or bun or potato what...