Word: venti
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Price of a venti mocha at the new Starbucks near Moscow--the megachain's first shop in Russia; one costs $4.71 in New York City...
...staff, rent, equipment--is the same no matter how much is piled on your plate. So giant servings are a win-win: you pay a little extra for a lot more food, and the restaurant makes extra profit. It's the same rule that created tubs of movie popcorn, venti-size coffee cups and Burger King's Meat'normous Omelet Sandwich. It's why no restaurant will ever give you a reasonably sized stack of pancakes...
Starbucks? Yep. The company that brought the word venti into daily use has become a purveyor of solidly middlebrow culture to go with its joe. Beah's is the second book it has chosen to feature in its 6,000 stores. Its first was by best-selling male weepmeister Mitch Albom (he of those Tuesdays with Morrie), which suggests how far the child-soldier has moved as a phenomenon for mass consumption...
...history, English concentrators must read the Anglo-American canon. Both pursuits involve thousands and thousands of pages, countless late nights in Lamont, and many, many dead trees. But reading alone has little value: students in every discipline need to interact with texts. Somewhere in that mulling over, even over venti cappuccinos at 2:30 a.m., lies the value of an education in any field. Slowing down does not mean compromising our education. Professor Ferguson says that the most important thing he learned as an undergraduate at Oxford was “how to cope with being asked to read...
...Broadway Starbucks—situated next to Broadway Market—a tall hot chocolate is $2.75, a grande is $3, and a venti...