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...crash program to clean up its act. It's keeping much closer tabs on its employees by sending what it calls "mystery shoppers," who have made 121,000 visits so far this year, to spy on restaurants' operations. In addition to the usual tutorials on how to pile on the ingredients for a Big Mac, McDonald's is for the first time giving its employees thorough hospitality training. The company is also offering cash incentives to more visible, effective store managers. "We're making progress but not fast enough," says Roberts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can McDonald's Shape Up? | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...also the introductory meeting time for the campus radio station. Lest the poster prostitute itself as mere “infotainment,” however, it carefully undermines conventional forms, eschewing capital letters and most useful punctuation. The result is a kind of aphasic word-pile of nouns and prepositions that emerge from our world but do not resemble it, compelling us with their strange and rhythmic beauty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: comp this! | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...crash program to clean up its act. It's keeping much closer tabs on its employees by sending what it calls "mystery shoppers," who have made 121,000 visits so far this year, to spy on restaurants' operations. In addition to the usual tutorials on how to pile on the ingredients for a Big Mac, McDonald's is for the first time giving its employees thorough hospitality training. The company is also offering cash incentives to more visible, effective store managers. "We're making progress but not fast enough," says Roberts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can McDonald's Shape Up? | 9/25/2002 | See Source »

...Waterbury last week, Johnson produced a three-foot stack of papers - bills she has written and shepherded into law in the six years Maloney has been in Washington. Johnson, who has served 20 years, is a high-ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee. Next to her pile was Maloney's: one two-page law. (He says he took the lead on at least two others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goliath vs. Goliath | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...wounded by hurtling chunks of stone and metal--even as people in close proximity were killed. Pasquale Buzzelli--who worked with Genelle on the 64th floor and was also in stairway B at 10:28 a.m.--fell when the stairwell broke under him but somehow landed atop a rickety pile of debris. These four were rescued before they were burned in creeping fires or crushed in mini-collapses in the later hours of Sept. 11 and after. It's not known whether anyone else could have been found alive--just that Genelle was the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Survivor: A Miracle's Cost | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

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