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...World writ large: a wide-open frontier of polyglot terms and postnational trends. A common multiculturalism links us all -- call it Planet Hollywood, Planet Reebok or the United Colors of Benetton. Taxi and hotel and disco are universal terms now, but so too are karaoke and yoga and pizza. For the gourmet alone, there is tiramisu at the Burger King in Kyoto, echt angel-hair pasta in Saigon and enchiladas on every menu in Nepal...
...gourmet hot-drinks machine doles out everything from capuccino and Suisse mocha to tea and chicken soup. And the adjacent food machine serves such delicacies as hot dogs, pizza and microwave dinners...
...Virginia's Lynchburg College the previous May. Clough's search began in school and later took him to New York State, where he clerked in a convenience store while sending out resumes. When nothing turned up, he returned to his parents' house in Lynchburg, Virginia, only to have the pizza parlor where he had worked in college reject him as overqualified. That's when the offer from a small Reston, Virginia, accounting firm came through. But Clough's big break meant big disappointment for others: no fewer than 250 people had applied...
...more jobs in the first 30 months of the recovery than any other company in the country, but they generally pay only about $5 to $9 an hour. PepsiCo is still expanding, but most of the new jobs are for those who feed the ovens at the company's Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC fast-food restaurants. Result: many people who survive layoffs and find new jobs nonetheless suffer a deep slash in income. One study found that of 2,000-odd workers let go by RJR Nabisco, 72% found jobs -- but at wages that averaged only...
Francis R. Rosselli, manager of Pepe's Pizza, had similarly high hopes for The Game...