Word: mecca
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Before the end-of-the-season tournaments begin, the team will compete in the water polo Mecca that is the state of California over spring break. That’s where it will play...
...create a successful consumer brand, Tawfik Mathlouti would be a happy man by now. Mathlouti is a French Muslim lawyer who vigorously opposes U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and believes the world should protest it by boycotting American products. In the fall of 2002, he began marketing Mecca-Cola, a distinctly non-American imitation of Coca-Cola, in France, Britain and elsewhere in Europe...
...seemed perfect. Polls showed that many Europeans were upset with the U.S. and less inclined to buy its brands. Mathlouti reaped acres of free publicity, especially in France, where the Iraq war was deeply unpopular and Muslims account for about 10% of the population. Yet after a promising start, Mecca-Cola has fizzled. In France, its biggest market, sales dropped about 10% in 2004; its market share there is negligible--1% or less...
Twin Doughnuts, named by the original owner after the birth of his twins, is perched at the juncture of North Beacon and Cambridge Streets (easily accessible by the T’s Route 66 Night Owl Bus). Doughnut-lovers and hungry clubbers are drawn to this late night Mecca by its inviting 1950’s-style neon-pink sign...
...Tell that to those still planning their winter vacations. Locals in Phuket, from hawkers to hotel managers, say tourists, spooked by the thought of a vacation in a disaster zone, have avoided the holiday mecca. Beaches crowded before Christmas with several thousand sun worshippers?and whose euros and dollars and renminbi directly or indirectly support 70% of the local population?now play host to just a few hundred. Hotel occupancy has plummeted from the usual 90% to just 10-15%. International carriers?including Thai Airways?have canceled some direct flights to the island. It's now possible to spend...