Word: mcdonaldization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...lots of history here, all fascinating but not pretty. So some residents aren't sure that the buses will ever come rolling in or the hotels ever reopen. "You ask the average person on the street what Cairo needs," says Mayor James Wilson, "and they'll say a McDonald's and a Wal-Mart...
JOSE BOVE French farmer who vandalized a McDonald's goes on trial, hailed as hero. Vive le foie gras...
...tech mergers. To a continent still following America's lead on all things connected (except for cell phones), the threat of WorldCom or AOL owning too much of Europe's Internet plumbing is practically a matter of national security, or at least of national pride. It's worse than McDonald's, Coke and Nike all rolled into one, because even the Europeans know that high-tech telecom is the future of the world economy, and they're determined that globalization not mean - sacre bleu! - Americanization. (Maybe when Vivendi finishes Seagram's and gets into Hollywood, the French, at least, will...
...Jason Purnell '99, who served as PBHA's vice president in 1998, says that the appointment of Paul McDonald to the paid post of PBHA executive director, was a major step forward...
...scenario is less a plot than a commercialized exploitation of primal material buried none too deep in mankind's collective unconscious and nowadays exploitable worldwide, down to the last plastic McDonald's mug. The hero with a thousand spin-offs...