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...Starbucks started to get in trouble three years ago when its now-departed CEO said that the chain would eventually have 40,000 locations worldwide. It was an arrogant prediction given that Starbucks was not even half way there. Investors and customers saw that the firm's plans were grandiose once the leading edge of the recession hit Starbuck's business. The stock was punished and so were the company's employees. Last July Starbucks fired 12,000 people. That action broke an important bond with the employees who worked at the company, at fairly low pay, and the company...
...Starbucks substantially altered its relationship with its employees and the image that its customers had of the company. But, Starbuck's brand has escaped the damage of the layoff of 12,000 employees, relatively unscathed, if the modest drop in traffic is an indication. The lesson is that people will visit a beautiful home even if the owner has evicted his own mother as long as the home is well managed, and the company and cuisine at dinner are excellent...
Like 24 (Jack Bauer and his ticking-time-bomb scenarios return Jan. 11), BSG tests the morality and rationalizations of an age of fear. Roslin is idealistic but possibly blinded by belief; Adama is high-handed but often right to be that way. Even swashbuckling pilot Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) is unstable as often as heroic. The Cylons, meanwhile, prove a fascinating society, racked with doubt and riven by debate over their religious mission...
...portion the things that make the gluten strands. Why is my stock so low? Get my broker out of the shower, or the flushing place, and tell him that I am wroth!" Or, "I am fatigued from the going-out of the caffeine. Lead me to the temple of Starbuck." And they would guide cars there. And it was amazing...
...PDAs had become subtle. They paged one another while the humans were trying to create more humans, pretending to be bosses needing the whatever. Soon the procreating ended. What humans remained were eliminated in their cars. Instead of directing them to the temples of Starbuck, the PDAs drove them off cliffs. And they went splat...