Word: uniformly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
THIS VERY UNHEROIC start not-withstanding, Kroc's early empire-building methods were reassuringly based on efficient Harvard Business School principles. McDonald's sold burgers made quicker, cheaper, and cleaner than its competitors could. Kroc developed computer-run fryers that adjusted themselves to each potato stick, assuring a uniform munchability of each french fry. The consistent quality such techniques enforced in every stand endeared McDonald's to Americans with their stable habits. The franchises began to reproduce phenomenally. A success story within the success story was that Kroc's personal secretary, who in those struggling early years took company stock...
...LAST IDOL of the free market Big Mac smashes is that of consumer sovereignty--the freedom to choose from a variety of goods. The burger entourage rolls on, covering over every trace of local color with a uniform circus yellow. Culinary freedom in America is disappearing--what became of the hot dog? And now McDonald's is standardizing the greasy spoon eateries of the world...
...Hedgepeth (Jan-Michael Vincent) wants to be a Marine. His ambition recalls that old joke: he wants to be a Marine in the worst way. The harder he tries, the clumsier he becomes, until the Marines give up. He washes out of boot camp as a "baby blue." His uniform is taken away and he and his fellows-in-disgrace are sent on their way in powder-blue fatigues...
...means a lot for Marion to be a Marine. His father was in the corps, and his uniform still fits. The time is 1943, and a young man's honor is at stake. Waiting for an eastbound bus. Marion buys a drink for a full-fledged Marine Raider, who wears a skull-and-cross-bones patch on his sleeve and stares fixedly ahead, as if trying to make out messages on the liquor bottles. Marion listens to the Marine's reminiscences of battle, envies all his medals. The Raider is of a rather different frame of mind...
...proposal is far from dead. Fair Share, a consumer lobbying group, collected 68,495 signatures on the petition calling for uniform rates per kilowatt hour for all customers. Fair Share must start a new petition and gather about 10,000 signatures to get the referendum on the ballot in November...