Word: mcdonaldization
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...Staff writer Timothy M. McDonald can be reached at tmcdonal@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Timothy M. McDonald can be reached at tmcdonal@fas.harvar.edu...
...like to remember the Alamo because we fought long odds and had to give up an entire building; the Mexicans remember Texas. If ever a country's character demanded that it root against the underdog, it's ours. We are the country of crushing, monolithic corporations--of McDonald's, Wal-Mart and companies such as Aramark, Cendant and Sysco that are so powerful we don't even know what they do. We crush foreign dictators for looking at us funny. We are geniuses at supersizing the good stuff and McRibbing the losers. Underdogs are for Canadians...
...Staff writer Timothy M. McDonald can be reached at tmcdonal@fas.harvard.edu...
...overinvestment could eventually cause prices to collapse there too. A metals trader in the U.S., for example, hangs on his wall a world map with black dots indicating the location of aluminum plants. Most producing countries have five or six dots; China has 130. "China is building smelters like McDonald's opens restaurants," says the trader, who asked not to be identified. He's worried, because China used to be a net importer of aluminum before starting to export and driving down world prices. China exported 621,000 tons in the first nine months of 2003, and far more could...