Word: yanks
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...restore the cult of caffeine. On Jan. 7, the passionate entrepreneur--whom employees call Uncle Howie--again became CEO, a position he ceded in 2000 for a seat on the board. He has lured back some apostles from the start-up years, and they've designed a plan to yank Starbucks' focus from gaining efficiency and appeasing Wall Street back to selling exemplary coffee with the kind of service and ambiance that makes a $4 latte worth the price...
...food world must have had mad scientists before--whoever decided to bring fire inside the house, the guy who thought it would be a good idea to yank on a cow's udder and drink whatever came out--but none of them could have played the part better than Arnold, 36, does. With slicked-back hair, a gap-toothed smile and an energy that would exhaust most meth addicts, he's become the gadget guy for top New York City chefs, as well as a teacher at the French Culinary Institute. In his Manhattan classroom, he trolls...
Pizza and fried chicken are tasty treats, but they're not staples in China like, say, noodles and dumplings--and that's where Yum thinks it can really score. And if a Yank selling egg rolls to the Chinese seems a bit quixotic, then Novak, 55, is the right man for the job. The CEO of Yum since 2000, he's a plain-talking, cheerleading executive who boasts of never having attended business school. He's given to goofy team-building tactics like passing out rubber chickens (and $100) to KFC managers whose stores are performing well. A former...
...sure. McDonald's says it has no plans to yank the disputed chairs and is working with Fritz Hansen to find a compromise (what that means exactly, it won't say). But Fritz Hansen says it has definitively withdrawn from the partnership. The furniture producer has already booked revenue of nearly $2 million for the 2,500 chairs it sold to McDonald's, and has requests for more chairs from several European outlets. These orders, the company says, will not be filled. That means fast food fans on the Continent - with its stricter design rights and copyright laws...
...which it is no part of the library’s duty to distribute to readers,” said the librarian, William C. Lane, according to an editorial in The Crimson that year. While Harvard’s librarians and the Square’s booksellers no longer yank books from their shelves, they are highlighting controversial books as part of this week’s American Library Association’s “Banned Books Week.” The Square’s Harvard Book Store currently displays once-banned books ranging from Harper Lee?...