Word: obvious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...across the street to McDonald's," says Sharon Zackfia, an equity analyst at William Blair & Co. In a recent report, she noted that when McDonald's rolled out local TV advertising for McCafé in Michigan, Starbucks management told her that Starbucks actually saw a boost in traffic. "The obvious answer to Starbucks' problems is that the economy is weak, and 30% of its stores are in California and Florida," says Zackfia. When the economy improves, Starbucks may bounce back, with or without McCafé competition. "Just as Starbucks will always be a beverage destination, McDonald's will always...
...alarming amid falling confidence: lower levels of trust in banks make customers more likely to yank their money, according to the survey. More than a tenth of those polled said they'd done just that during the crisis, preferring instead to keep their cash at home, despite the obvious dangers of doing...
...questions are of more than academic interest. In the sheer scope of her ambition - including her determination to reset national priorities and change a national discourse, roll back the state, reward enterprise and challenge what she believed was a dangerously accommodationist attitude to Soviet power - the Thatcher enterprise has obvious parallels to that of Barack Obama, even if their ideological trajectories differ. So what lessons might the U.S. President draw from one of the most successful politicians of modern times? (See pictures from Obama's first 100 days...
...France now concurs, was established at the opening of the trial this week in Paris of the self-styled "Gang of Barbarians" charged with kidnapping, torturing and then killing the young Jewish man. And although acknowledging Halimi's death as a hate crime may seem like stating the obvious, it's a far from insignificant detail in a country that has tended to minimize the bias aspect of past violence against Jews...
...Souter's name to go before the U.S. Senate, the first part of Bush's gamble paid off - there was no bruising confirmation fight. He won Senate approval by a vote of 90-9. But once Souter was on the court, it wasn't long before it became obvious that he couldn't be counted on to solidify an ever emerging but never quite stable conservative majority anchored at the time by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia, and often supported by the more moderate William Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor...