Word: mcdonaldization
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Four minutes later, freshman forward Liza Ryabkina added the eventual game-winning tally. The reigning ECAC Rookie of the Week was assisted on the play by classmate Leanna Coskren and sophomore Anna McDonald...
...Five years ago, the local McDonald's menu listed french fries as simply "potato" or Filet-o-Fish as "fish hamburgers"; most are items now ordered by more familiar names and some, like the 100-yen cheese burger and sandwiches with steamed buns, are popular because they are cheap or soft. "Toasted buns are too hard for them," says manager Hayato Akasako. "They like the Filet-o-Fish and the shrimp burger." Akasako also says the elderly don't shy from trying new things. Upon ordering, some of them now present downloaded electronic coupons on the screens of their mobile...
...take the Latino vote, which could make up as much as a quarter of the vote on primary day, for granted. Although the 37th has a large Latino population, it consistently elects African-Americans, as it did five months ago in a special election to replace Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald after her unexpected death. Part of that can be attributed to its politically active black population, which makes up 25%, as well as the fact that many Latinos are not citizens or are not registered to vote - only 21% voted in August...
...really the same way we organized back in the heyday of political machines: know your voters and turn them out personally," says George Mason University associate professor Michael McDonald, an expert on voter participation. "Obama has keyed into this and applied it on campus, using students to recruit other students...
...least four factors are driving turnout: wide-open races for both party's nominations, the historic candidacies of both a black man and a woman, a general concern about the direction of the country and rising economic anxiety. Michael McDonald, a political scientist at George Mason University who studies voter participation, pointed in particular to Barack Obama, whose age and cross-party appeal has helped attract unusual numbers of independents and young people to Democratic contests. As of now, he says, independents are breaking for Democrats by a ratio of two to one. "One of the reasons why independents...