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.harvard.edu...
Your funding comes from various ministries, and individual donors. What about businesses? They are conspicuously absent. Apart from McDonald's - which donated over 3150,000 to us after one of its restaurants was bombed in Brittany - no private business has accepted our appeals for funds. Not even big companies whose property, employees, and customers have been victimized by terrorism. After Sept. 11, companies from the U.S. and Europe - including most airlines - flocked to us for insight on the legal, medical, and insurance experience and partners we've had over time. We were very popular, right up until we asked...
...penchant for ironic decor. Others have been U.S. soldiers and ex-CIA operatives who could identify the models of the rugs' grenades and guns. Alongside its rug exhibit, the gallery has displayed burqas bearing similarly unexpected imagery such as U.S. flags, phrases like "I love New York," and McDonald's golden arches. "It kind of sums up America," says curator Rhonda Saboff. "It's funny, because it's a McDonald's world...
...front of dozens of witnesses, including his wife. Police suspected a contract killing and said they had a description of the assassin. President Vladimir Putin ordered his Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov and Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov to investigate. Meanwhile, a car bomb exploded on Saturday outside a crowded McDonald's in Moscow, injuring seven people. MIDDLE EAST Hot Water Israel protested when Lebanon inaugurated a project to pump water from a river near their joint border. The Lebanese project will draw water from a tributary of the Hasbani River, which feeds the Sea of Galilee, Israel's largest freshwater reservoir...