Word: mcdonaldization
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...Starbucks began life as a place to get a killer cup of coffee, espresso or cappuccino. A commodity turned into an art form. Great idea. Liquid bliss. But now it's an overcrowded, underdesigned mess. Even McDonald's coffee has been rated higher than Starbucks by Consumer Reports. Your joe has lost its mo. And that's your fault, Howard. And Wall Street's. As a public company, Starbucks is under constant pressure to grow same-store sales to make investors happy. Fair enough. So, like every other retailer, you've asked the question: What else can I run through...
...second period to erase a 2-0 deficit, to BC taking the lead in the third period only for Harvard to strike back 12 seconds later, to both teams battling through three brutal overtimes with each missed scoring opportunity extending their agony, to the Eagles’ Anna McDonald finally scoring the winning goal over 114 minutes after the opening faceoff, having practiced for only four days since being cleared to play following a serious groin injury. It was the longest game in NCAA women’s history, but it didn’t get boring for a second...
...every ounce of their energy to try to retain proper journalistic objectivity, and still failed miserably. Muffled cheers and muttered encouragement directed towards the two teams were commonplace among us sportswriters by the end, and I couldn’t help but yell out in pain and disbelief when McDonald ended my school’s chances at reclaiming its spot at the top of Beantown’s hockey hierarchy...
...city you may never have heard of--the provincial capital of Chengdu--but that doesn't stop her from shopping like the big spenders of Tokyo, Hong Kong or Shanghai. One Friday evening, Wang, 28, trolls down Chunxi Street, a jam-packed thoroughfare of flashing neon signs, McDonald's restaurants and boutiques, looking for the latest fashions she's admired in Cosmopolitan magazine...
...this game if you don’t win,” Stone says. There is only sophomore goalie Brittany Martin, who minded net for the duration, sprawled in the crease watching the game’s final roll of the puck, off the stick of Anna McDonald, trickle over the goal line, and into the cage to set off the BC celebration. And her counterpart, Eagles rookie Molly Schaus, a red-haired native of Natick, Mass. being just better enough to prevail, turning away a mind-numbing 73 shots in the process. Then Schaus, in the interview room, still...