Word: venti
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...commodity, a 50˘ mug of joe that came in three flavors: black, with sugar and with cream? That was before 1985, when Howard Schultz opened his first Seattle coffeehouse--later named Starbucks--and taught caffeine-craving consumers from Birmingham to Bangkok that what they really wanted was a $4 venti extra-hot triple-shot latte, easy on the foam. With 7,500 shops in 34 countries--plus supermarket sales--ringing up revenue north of $4 billion a year, Starbucks has become a global iconic consumer brand, as well as the place millions of people hang out, read, listen to music...
...School professor Nancy Koehn. "When someone does something big, ripples follow." Starbucks continues to expand, having entered coffee-conscious France earlier this year. Schultz, who drinks black drip, says the company plans to have at least 10,000 North American stores and 15,000 overseas. How big is that? Venti. --By Barbara Kiviat
Aside from placing in the top 10, Whalen also impressed with a time that averaged 5:50 a mile, and was a mere 25 seconds from the first-place finisher, Aly Venti of Amherst...
Take the morning ride up. If you don’t first try to hide behind someone nervously sipping a venti Frappuccino latte, you can be sure to seem otherwise occupied by stiring your own iced something. By the time you get to the top floor that blueberry muffin you saved for later is all but gone—stuffing your mouth with food saves you from unbearable small talk...
...come across as an academic whore; if I had not just dented, scratched, and broken the headlight of a shitty little American sedan with the Rover while I was attempting to park outside of Starbucks where I was making my second trip today to purchase my second and third venti nonfat iced lattes to keep me awake during my exam after the completion of two consecutive allnighters, I would not be forced to hoard my funds with the expectation of forking it all over to this very fortunate car-owner, and I would be offering a monetary reward...