Word: mcdonaldization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...knows what are the facts," complains Constable Jafar Hamid, proudly showing off his English as he guards a McDonald's outlet, closed against possible rioting. So where do all the rumors come from? "We don't believe in one thing, we don't think like a nation," he says. "Everybody has his own opinion and that is part of the problem." With reporting by Khuda Yar Khan/Islamabad
Increase in McDonald's global November sales, boosted in part by Europeans buying more hamburgers and chicken sandwiches...
...merchants that really benefit from this? This tends to capture smaller transactions. It tends to capture places where there are queues--fast-service restaurants, parking lots, transit, buses, subways--where time is really important. So you go back three years ago, you could not pay with a card in McDonald's. The last thing they want to do is add 10 seconds to the time it takes to get you, after you get your food, away from the cash register. We found out, hey, the signature and the PIN--that adds a lot of time. So we said, Fine...
...will drop out of the race, Republican Senator Sam Brownback is lost and late, being driven around Iowa by a college intern in the Brownback family's Chrysler minivan. He is looking at a map, pumping his own gas, paying with his own credit card and then running into McDonald's. "$7.15? For a yogurt parfait and a small cheeseburger?" Brownback asks the cashier, who explains that the college kid got a Big Mac. "Oh," he says, and drags a $20 bill and a quarter from his pocket...
...Crimson matches up extremely well with the Wildcats. Speed has been Harvard’s forte this season, as the Crimson features a swift batch of forwards headlined by Vaillancourt along with the blistering Minnesota duo of rookie Katharine Chute and sophomore transfer Anna McDonald and freshman Ukranian import Liza Ryabkina...