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  • Normally an officer of his rank wouldn't get involved in such a silly case, but the company building the pancake franchise had some clout with local politicians.   (source)
    franchise = a company that does business under another company's name and uses many of their systems
  • Bullheads distinguishing civic feature is the Mohave Valley Highway, four lanes of asphalt lined with gas stations and fast-food franchises, chiropractors and video shops, auto-parts outlets and tourist traps.†   (source)
  • We passed a few more franchises — smiling chickens offering platters of their own fried body parts, a grinning Mexican wielding tacos.†   (source)
  • Mort Janklow built a law firm from scratch in the 1960s, then put together one of the very earliest cable television franchises and sold it for a fortune to Cox Broadcasting.†   (source)
  • Adnan had done well since emigrating over a decade earlier; he owned and managed four Subway franchises in New Orleans.†   (source)
  • They had been some of my less successful prophetic franchises.†   (source)
  • These local franchulates send most of their gross to Medellin in franchising fees and keep barely enough to pay overhead.†   (source)
  • In other cases (such as the rise of franchising and the spread of obesity) fast food has played a more central role.†   (source)
  • The government announced their intention to curb the trade union movement and do away with the limited franchises of the Indian, Coloured, and African peoples.†   (source)
  • The gang that Venkatesh had fallen in with was one of about a hundred branches—franchises, really—of a larger Black Disciples organization.†   (source)
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  • Maybe one of these franchises ….†   (source)
  • Mr. Hickey can always contend that keeping certain contracts with the area hospitals was in fact an impossibility, given the immense buying power of the national franchises which had recently opened, and that I purposely overstated the relationship and loyalty I've enjoyed with those hospitals.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, our franchised citizens are not everywhere a small fraction; you know or should know that the percentage of citizens among adults ranges from over eighty per cent on Iskander to less than three per cent in some Terran nations yet government is much the same everywhere.†   (source)
  • Government busted them up-at the same time when I was starting cable TV franchises in thirty states.†   (source)
  • Kroc wasn't driven by greed; the initial McDonald's franchising fee was only $950.†   (source)
  • New franchisees had to start their lives anew with just one McDonald's restaurant.†   (source)
  • He's got three franchises down around Long Beach.†   (source)
  • Most Towne Halls have a few franchises-within-franchises.†   (source)
  • Many individual franchisees are genuinely concerned about the well-being of their workers.†   (source)
  • There are no NeoAquarian Temple franchises in the Sacrifice Zone.†   (source)
  • Many of the complaints about Subway arise from its unusual system for recruiting new franchisees.†   (source)
  • Almost every facet of American life has now been franchised or chained.†   (source)
  • But the franchisee wants her to do it bad.†   (source)
  • Franchisees who'd gone bankrupt were never asked if they felt successful.†   (source)
  • They are salespeople, middle managers, franchisees.†   (source)
  • Support for the growth of franchising has even become part of American foreign policy.†   (source)
  • The new franchising strategy proved enormously profitable for the McDonald's Corporation.†   (source)
  • Franchisees do, however, have some control over wage rates and try to keep them as low as possible.†   (source)
  • Franchising was an ingenious way to grow a new company in a new industry.†   (source)
  • In recent years conflicts between franchisees and franchisors have become much more common.†   (source)
  • Some franchisees have withheld their contributions to the chain's advertising pool.†   (source)
  • Franchising schemes have been around in one form or another since the nineteenth century.†   (source)
  • 1 percent of new franchised businesses had failed.†   (source)
  • In 1978 Congress passed the first federal legislation to regulate franchising.†   (source)
  • Once a contract is signed, franchisees are largely on their own.†   (source)
  • The chain relies on "development agents" to sell new Subway franchises.†   (source)
  • It obtained properties and leased them to franchisees with at least a 40 percent markup.†   (source)
  • Operators who disobey these rules can lose their franchises.†   (source)
  • They now own some of the most lucrative franchises.†   (source)
  • In 1998 an IFA survey claimed that 92 percent of all franchisees said they were "successful."†   (source)
  • In 1996, the SBA guaranteed almost $1 billion in loans to new franchisees.†   (source)
  • Dunkin' Donuts and Kentucky Fried Chicken were among the first chains to start selling franchises.†   (source)
  • Franchisees call the practice "encroachment" and angrily oppose it.†   (source)
  • Advocates of franchising have long billed it as the safest way of going into business for yourself.†   (source)
  • The survey was based on a somewhat limited sample: franchisees who were still in business.†   (source)
  • When a contract is terminated, the franchisee can lose his or her entire investment.†   (source)
  • He used to live in it, staying on the street or in various Snooze 'n' Cruise franchises, until he met up with Hiro Protagonist.†   (source)
  • Handcuffs are not intended as long-term restraint devices, millions of Clink franchisees to the contrary.†   (source)
  • He is shouting in the Abkhazian dialect; all the people who run CosaNostra pizza franchises in this part of the Valley are Abkhazian immigrants.†   (source)
  • J There are a lot of Towne Halls in a lot of Snooze 'n' Cruise franchises where you have to check your weapons at the entrance.†   (source)
  • Okay, the three-ring binder for Clink franchises states that the manager is supposed to check on the detainee half an hour after admission.†   (source)
  • It is an innovation that was created by some of the franchises farther south and has been spreading northward along with its clientele.†   (source)
  • This was a case study of turf struggle between Nova Siciia and Narcolombia franchises in his old neighborhood in Aurora.†   (source)
  • Jason grew up in the western suburbs of Chicago, one of the most highly franchised regions in the country.†   (source)
  • Then there are collections from delinquent borrowers and from franchisees who depend on Nova Sicila for their plant security.†   (source)
  • It is the franchisee himself, the one who is paying her a totally stupid amount of money to do this job.†   (source)
  • Most of the franchises are yellow-logoed, wrong-side-of-the-tracks operations like Uptown, Narcolombia, Caymans Plus, Metazania, and The Clink.†   (source)
  • Mr. Caruso, like any other franchisee, had access to Turfnet, the multiple listing service that Nova Siciia used to keep track of what it called "opportunity zones."†   (source)
  • The shapes probably represent computers, or central nodes in Rife's worldwide network, or Pearly Gates franchises, or any other kind of local and regional offices that Rife has going around the world.†   (source)
  • The behavior that the Reverend Wayne promulgates through his television shows, pamphlets, and franchises can be traced in an unbroken line back to the Pentecostal cults of early Christianity, and from there back to pagan glossolalia cults.†   (source)
  • Cheap, nasty franchises all tend to adopt logos with a lot of bright, hideous yellow in them, and so Alameda Street is clearly marked out before him, a gout of radioactive urine ejected south from the dead center of LA.†   (source)
  • No franchises anywhere.†   (source)
  • He constructed a string of self. supporting religious franchises all over the world, and used his university, and its Metaverse campus, to crank out tens of thousands of missionaries, who fanned out all over the Third World and began converting people by the hundreds of thousands, just like St. Louis Bertrand.†   (source)
  • The course lasts two weeks and trains a few thousand managers, executives, and franchisees each year.†   (source)
  • Ralston-Purina once terminated the contracts of 642 Jack in the Box franchisees, giving them just thirty days to move out.†   (source)
  • At a college reunion in Colorado Springs, an old friend suggested that Feamster become a Little Caesars franchisee.†   (source)
  • Ronald McDonald, the Big Mac, the Egg McMuffin, and the Filet— O-Fish sandwich were all developed by local franchisees.†   (source)
  • Kroc believed completely in whatever he sold and pitched McDonald's franchises with an almost religious fervor.†   (source)
  • "Small businesses and franchising succeed by relying on marketplace solutions," said Don DeBolt, the president of the IFA.†   (source)
  • Disobeying the McDonald's Corporation became tantamount to violating the terms of the lease, behavior that could lead to a franchisee's eviction.†   (source)
  • Federal law demands full disclosure prior to a sale, but does not regulate how franchises are run thereafter.†   (source)
  • Timothy Bates, a professor of economics at Wayne State University, believes that the IFA has vastly overstated the benefits of franchising.†   (source)
  • In New York City, the SBA backed thirteen loans to Burger King franchisees; eleven of them defaulted.†   (source)
  • BECOMING A FRANCHISEE IS an odd combination of starting your own business and going to work for someone else.†   (source)
  • The success of McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and T.G.I. Fridays in Germany has helped spark a franchising boom.†   (source)
  • The franchisee wants to start his or her own business without going it alone and risking everything on a new idea.†   (source)
  • Although franchisees must obey corporate directives, they are not covered by federal laws that protect employees.†   (source)
  • Franchising enabled the new fast food chains to expand rapidly by raising the hopes and using the money of small investors.†   (source)
  • Some chains grew through franchised outlets; others through company-owned stores; and McDonald's eventually expanded through both.†   (source)
  • The company's guidance has helped McDonald's franchisees defeat literally hundreds of efforts to unionize.†   (source)
  • Most of all, Kroc wanted loyalty and utter devotion from his franchisees — and in return, he promised to make them rich.†   (source)
  • Since 1992, the number of franchised outlets there has doubled, and about five thousand more are being added every year.†   (source)
  • The McDonald's Corporation no longer asks crew members to take lie detector tests and advises its franchisees to obey local labor laws.†   (source)
  • But it was McDonald's that perfected new franchising techniques, increasing the chain's size while maintaining strict control of its products.†   (source)
  • Although Kroc could be dictatorial, he also listened carefully to his franchisees' ideas and complaints.†   (source)
  • In 1960, Oscar Goldstein, a McDonald's franchisee in Washington, D.C., decided to sponsor Bozo's Circus, a local children's television show.†   (source)
  • Franchises and chain stores strive to offer exactly the same product or service at numerous locations.†   (source)
  • Indeed, during the late 1950s, McDonald's franchisees often earned more money than the company's founder.†   (source)
  • The company responded by actively recruiting African-American franchisees, a move that defused tensions and helped McDonald's penetrate urban markets.†   (source)
  • They are often the first multinationals to arrive when a country has opened its markets, serving as the avant-garde of American franchising.†   (source)
  • Many of the chain's franchisees, unhappy with the company's management, have formed an independent association.†   (source)
  • Roughly 30 to 50 percent of Subway's new franchisees are immigrants, many of whom are not fluent in English.†   (source)
  • But it was the fast food industry that turned franchising into a business model soon emulated by retail chains throughout the United States.†   (source)
  • Most Little Caesars franchisees have to supply the capital for the purchase or construction of their own restaurants.†   (source)
  • According to another study, three-quarters of the American companies that started selling franchises in 1983 had gone out of business by 1993.†   (source)
  • Becoming a successful McDonald's franchisee, he noted, didn't require "any unusual aptitude or intellect."†   (source)
  • The FTC now requires chains to provide lengthy disclosure statements that spell out their rules for prospective franchisees.†   (source)
  • The automobile, soft drink, oil, and motel industries later relied upon franchising for much of their initial growth.†   (source)
  • The annual royalty Subway takes from its franchisees — 8 percent of total revenues — is among the highest.†   (source)
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  • "Through all the ages," he said, "the mind has been regarded as evil, and every form of insult: from heretic to materialist to exploiterevery form of iniquity: from exile to disfranchisement to expropriation-every form of torture: from sneers to rack to firing squadhave been brought down upon those who assumed the responsibility of looking at the world through the eyes of a living consciousness and performing the crucial act of a rational connection.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disfranchisement reverses the meaning of franchisement. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
  • Had the Michigan sergeant lived to witness the North's retreat from Reconstruction in the 1870s and the South's disfranchisement and formalized segregation of blacks in the 1890s, he might have wondered whether the abolition of slavery had revolutionized everything after all.†   (source)
  • The South must be kept down and disfranchisement of the whites was one way to keep the South down.†   (source)
  • But few have pretended that the present movement for disfranchisement in the South is for such a purpose; it has been plainly and frankly declared in nearly every case that the object of the disfranchising laws is the elimination of the black man from politics.†   (source)
  • Now in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the people of this country, their social and religious degradation -- in view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States.†   (source)
  • For any state to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the disfranchisement of one entire half of the people, is to pass a bill of attainder, or, an ex post facto law, and is therefore a violation of the supreme law of the land.†   (source)
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  • Among Chuck Muckle's responsibilities was to keep Mother Paula's valuable brand name out of the media, unless the company was opening a new franchise or introducing a new menu item (such as its sensational Key lime flapjacks).†   (source)
  • "It's a Plug franchise.†   (source)
  • They're copying some kind of golf-course franchise that works out West.†   (source)
  • "They've already got the takeout franchise operation in place," said Crake.†   (source)
  • The Defective Detective is this film franchise Hana and I used to love when we were little, about a famous detective who's actually incompetent, and his dog sidekick: The dog always ends up solving the crimes.†   (source)
  • The NFL had a new designation: the "franchise player?'†   (source)
  • He had worked briefly as an automotive parts salesman, a janitor, a car wash attendant, and a short-order cook at the local A&W fast-food franchise.†   (source)
  • One day, in 2006, Zeitoun was visiting his cousin Adnan at his Subway franchise downtown.†   (source)
  • Every street for three blocks around the franchise is blocked off by Mafia war wagons.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, Kroc convinced the brothers to sell him the right to franchise McDonald's nationwide.†   (source)
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  • Haven't you ever wondered how franchise stores pop up so fast?" she asked.†   (source)
  • She looked into the possibility of opening a franchise of an ice cream parlor chain, and when that didn't pan out, decided to start her own business, a café that sold ice cream and sandwiches, a place where people could spend the day and relax without being hassled.†   (source)
  • As in Will's dad didn't simply own an individual franchise but had probably started the entire business.†   (source)
  • No other franchise leader had ever done such a thing.†   (source)
  • Howard walked away with the Buick franchise for all of San Francisco.†   (source)
  • What is at stake here today is not so much the rights of Japanese Canadians who have moved from British Columbia to other parts of Canada, but rather the basic concept of democracy and our belief as a nation so far as our belief in the franchise is concerned.†   (source)
  • Sure, get the team its franchise and then bail out on them.†   (source)
  • It's a free country, and your training notwithstanding, you don't have a franchise on common sense.†   (source)
  • A typical franchise.†   (source)
  • We have to pay big graft to keep our franchise.†   (source)
  • Let me single out just two: Daniel O'Connell, who fought against injustice to extend a franchise restricted by religious prejudice; Charles Stewart Parnell, whose statue stands today in the House of Commons and whose political skills and commitment to social justice made such an impact in that House.†   (source)
  • Yeh, Braselton, me and Pearce are thinking about opening up a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise outside the Gates of Legrand.†   (source)
  • Part of me still can't accept the idea of Sunny running this kind of squarely middle-class franchise, or for that matter running any kind of business at all, and then one so expansive and peopled and professionally staffed.†   (source)
  • The rifle, Alessandro had long known, is the infantryman's tool, franchise, and birthright.†   (source)
  • More slave labor for his amateur wedding franchise.†   (source)
  • The discount stores opened their doors in 1959 as a Gibson's franchise.†   (source)
  • He got the Bigburger franchise for our town.†   (source)
  • — the franchise is force, naked and raw, the Power of the Rods and the Ax.†   (source)
  • "Si quelqu'un peut se vanter de la franchise, de l'acte gratuit, c'est moi.†   (source)
  • It's a franchise: there are Soul Scrolls in every city center, in every suburb, or so they say.†   (source)
  • I walked to an OASIS parlor located a few blocks away, a franchise outlet called the Plug.†   (source)
  • There was a Subway franchise, various ticket counters, an information kiosk.†   (source)
  • Crazy, Darrel wants an Indian princess and a Radio Shack franchise in Santa Fe.†   (source)
  • The McDonald's franchise agreement required every new restaurant to fly the Stars and Stripes.†   (source)
  • Isn't there an NSA franchise down the road?†   (source)
  • A few blocks later, I ducked into a Vend-All franchise.†   (source)
  • Ten percent of these franchise loans ended in default.†   (source)
  • She can see the destination franchise ahead.†   (source)
  • Enrique Cortazar ran the failing Narcolombia franchise upon which Jason had hinged his argument.†   (source)
  • For a fee, you can drive into a Snooze 'n' Cruise franchise and umbilical your bago.†   (source)
  • It is wired into the franchise by a thick cable coming out of the wall.†   (source)
  • Y.T. is supposed to be on her way to a Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates franchise.†   (source)
  • But franchise nations prefer to have their own security force.†   (source)
  • MetaCops has a franchise just down the road that serves as headquarters.†   (source)
  • The Compton Nova Sicila franchise is a grisly scene.†   (source)
  • It is a green-and-blue sign, soothing and calm in a glare-torn franchise ghetto.†   (source)
  • Inside, the franchise is bright, white, robot-polished floors.†   (source)
  • Several of them overshot the Hong Kong franchise and had to back up a block or so.†   (source)
  • She looks back at the Hong Kong franchise.†   (source)
  • Inside the franchise, things are startlingly relaxed.†   (source)
  • At least their dad had a movie franchise.†   (source)
  • I need you to pull some strings to get a Little League franchise for some local kids.†   (source)
  • J. T.'s franchise quadrupled its revenues during this period.†   (source)
  • It is true that we had considered limiting the franchise.†   (source)
  • So what difference is there between our voters and wielders of franchise in the past?†   (source)
  • Why, I had gone through all this to get my franchise, hadn't I?†   (source)
  • Of the twenty-eight franchise players named in 1993, nine were left tackles, the most at any one position.†   (source)
  • He made the mistake of bringing home a ChickieNobs Bucket O'Nubbins one night — a franchise had opened around the corner, and the stuff wasn't that bad if you could forget everything you knew about the provenance — and after that the two of them who were not Amanda barely spoke to him.†   (source)
  • Aunt Helena is fat, she once headed a Weight Watchers' franchise operation in Iowa: She's good at Testifying.†   (source)
  • A team could claim one player as its franchise player, and thus prevent him from becoming a free agent.†   (source)
  • It's his farm now He can make half a million by selling, buy his franchise and a house, and I can look out on a golf course, which won't kill me.†   (source)
  • He worked as a mechanic at a SpeeDee Oil Change and Tune-Up franchise most of the week, and had a part-time job delivering lost luggage for the airport.†   (source)
  • Turkey now has hundreds of franchise outlets, including 7-Eleven, Nutra Slim, Re/Max Real Estate, Mail Boxes Etc., and Ziebart Tidy Car.†   (source)
  • "If you're so set on sticking with a golf course," Bud said, "why don't you buy the franchise yourself?"†   (source)
  • NFL teams saw, instantly, that a left tackle even after he'd been designated a franchise player was cheaper than a left tackle purchased on the open market.†   (source)
  • He'd like to go to New Mexico, he says, and open up a franchise, away from the hogs and cold and farmer's hours.†   (source)
  • The money wasn't all guaranteed, but a career-ending injury still cost an NFL franchise millions of dollars—if Peyton Manning suffered a career-ending injury, the Colts were out of pocket about half of their entire 2005 payroll.†   (source)
  • "Instead of the company paying the salesmen," Stan Luxenberg, a franchise historian, explained, "the salesmen would pay the company."†   (source)
  • The Little Caesars franchise fee was $15,000, almost all the money he had left in the bank. devotion to a new faith†   (source)
  • Coble's bill would for the first time obligate franchise chains to act in "good faith," a basic tenet of the nation's Uniform Commercial Code.†   (source)
  • After the warm-up came the pitch: "I have very recently taken over the national franchise of the McDonald's system.†   (source)
  • At the heart of a franchise agreement is the desire by two parties to make money while avoiding risk.†   (source)
  • THE FRANCHISE AGREEMENT THAT Dave Feamster signed in 1984 gave him the exclusive right to open Little Caesars restaurants in the Pueblo area.†   (source)
  • American taxpayers had covered the franchise fees, paid for the buildings, real estate, equipment, and supplies.†   (source)
  • Iowa adopted similar franchise rules in 1992, without driving Burger King or McDonald's out of the state.†   (source)
  • The key to a successful franchise, according to many texts on the subject, can be expressed in one word: "uniformity."†   (source)
  • Before gaining the chance to own a franchise, he had to spend months learning every aspect of the business.†   (source)
  • "We are not seeking to penalize anyone," Coble said, before introducing his plan for franchise reform.†   (source)
  • As for a jail, some place to habeas the occasional stray corpus, any halfdecent franchise strip has one.†   (source)
  • The International Franchise Association (IFA), a trade group backed by the large chains, has for years released studies "proving" that franchisees fare better than independent businessmen.†   (source)
  • She looks over in that direction to see that the source of the light is a sort of doggie door built into the side of the Hong Kong franchise.†   (source)
  • The Snyders have declined countless offers to sell the chain, refuse to franchise it, and have succeeded by rejecting just about everything the rest of the fast food industry has done.†   (source)
  • In a Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong franchise on the outskirts of Phoenix, Rat Thing number B-782 comes awake.†   (source)
  • "In short," Bates argues, "the franchise route to self-employment is associated with higher business failure rates and lower profits than independent business ownership."†   (source)
  • A 1981 study by the General Accounting Office found that the SBA had guaranteed 18,000 franchise loans between 1967 and 1979, subsidizing the launch of new Burger Kings and McDonald's, among others.†   (source)
  • Two "highways" divided it up into quadrants, and all the franchise companies and nationalities had their booths along the highways.†   (source)
  • He cuts right across the parking lot of the neighboring NeoAquarian Temple Franchise and pulls out onto the road.†   (source)
  • Their latest schemes, their plans to market and subdivide and franchise their way up, whatever the cost, the whole spirit now gripping Colorado, vanish in an instant.†   (source)
  • They receive half of the franchise fee paid by new recruits, plus one-third of the annual royalties, plus one-third of the "transfer fee" paid whenever a restaurant is resold.†   (source)
  • By opening up his own Nova Sicila franchise, he started out with an automatic 3,333 points in the Coombata Point bank.†   (source)
  • The U.S. State Department now publishes detailed studies of overseas franchise opportunities and runs a Gold Key Program at many of its embassies to help American franchisors find overseas partners.†   (source)
  • To find the manager of a franchise, don't strain to read his title off the name tag, just look for the one with the binder.†   (source)
  • The McDonald's Corporation insists that its franchise operators follow directives on food preparation, purchasing, store design, and countless other minute details.†   (source)
  • In a Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong franchise in Phoenix, Arizona, Ng Security Industries Semi-Autonomous Guard Unit B-782 comes awake.†   (source)
  • Dean Sager, a former staff economist for the U.S. House of Representatives' Small Business Committee, has called Subway the "worst" franchise in America.†   (source)
  • Y.T. learns that this parking lot is linked with that of a Chop Shop franchise next door ("We turn any vehicle into CASH in minutes!†   (source)
  • It's too late to save your franchise, Jason The Iron Pumper, but it might not be too late to keep the sewer rats from eating your nipples for dinner.†   (source)
  • Local fast food franchisees have little ability to reduce their fixed costs: their lease payments, franchise fees, and purchases from company-approved suppliers.†   (source)
  • In addition to the franchise fee, he had to promise the company 5 percent of his annual revenues and contribute an additional 4 percent to an advertising pool.†   (source)
  • Jason has been given a priority job to deliver his records to the very franchise where Uncle Enzo will be taking his espresso this afternoon!†   (source)
  • Gaining a franchise from a less famous chain — such as Augie's, Buddy's Bar-B-Q, Happy Joe's Pizza & Ice Cream Parlor, the Chicken Shack, Gumby Pizza, Hot Dog on a Stick, or Tippy's Taco House — can cost as little as $50,000.†   (source)
  • She goes back into the Hong Kong franchise, a nebula of aromatic freshness trailing behind her like the tail of a comet.†   (source)
  • Franchisees are sometimes afraid to criticize their chains in public, fearing reprisals such as the denial of additional restaurants, the refusal to renew a franchise contract at the end of its twenty-year term, or the immediate termination of an existing contract.†   (source)
  • The franchise and the virus work on the same principle: what thrives in one place will thrive in another.†   (source)
  • Right in front of the Hong Kong franchise, Y.T. notices a black Town Car that has been sitting there for a while.†   (source)
  • According to Susan Kezios, president of the American Franchise Association, the contracts offered by fast food chains often require a franchisee to waive his or her legal right to file complaints under state law; to buy only from approved suppliers, regardless of the price; to sell the restaurant only to a buyer approved by the chain; and to accept termination of the contract, for any cause, at the discretion of the chain.†   (source)
  • "Subway is the biggest problem in franchising," Sager told Fortune magazine in 1998, "and emerges as one of the key examples of every [franchise] abuse you can think of:' Subway was founded in 1965 by Frederick DeLuca, who borrowed $1,000 from a family friend to open a sandwich shop in Bridgeport, Connecticut.†   (source)
  • It was a franchise operation, except it had ziggurats instead of golden arches, and clay tablets instead of threering binders.†   (source)
  • His car is an invisible black lozenge, just a dark place that reflects the bin-nd of franchise signs-the loglo.†   (source)
  • At first, the only trace that B-782 leaves of his passage is a dancing trail of sparks down the center of the franchise ghetto.†   (source)
  • A man is approaching on foot, walking across the emptiness between the Mafia franchise and the perimeter.†   (source)
  • A computer voice tells her that she is supposed to make a pickup in Griffith Park and deliver it to a Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates franchise in Van Nuys.†   (source)
  • "No surprises" is the motto of the franchise ghetto, its Good Housekeeping seal, subliminally blazoned on every sign and logo that make up the curves and grids of light that outline the Basin.†   (source)
  • Traffic is moving a little better on this stretch of the boulevard, and so Y.T. comes into the lot at a pretty good clip, takes one or two orbits around the franchise to work off her speed.†   (source)
  • The Deliverator hears a discordant beetling over the metal hurricane of his sound system and realizes that it is a smoke alarm, coming from inside the franchise.†   (source)
  • One of the boxcars has been turned into a Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates franchise, and evangelical CentroAmencans are lined up to do their penance and speak in tongues below the neon Elvis.†   (source)
  • In fact, the squat franchise itself looks like nothing more than a low-slung base for the great aramid fiber pillars that thrust the billboard up into the trademark firmament.†   (source)
  • The magic words are "We Have PullThrus," which means you can enter the franchise, hook up, sleep, unhook, and drive out without ever having to shift your land zeppelin into reverse.†   (source)
  • Looking down, she sees that behind the franchise, near the dumpster, the asphalt is strewn with small glass vials, like the one i8i that Squeaky was looking at last night.†   (source)
  • As the sun sets, its red light is supplanted by the light of many neon logos emanating from the franchise ghetto that constitutes this U-Stor-It's natural habitat.†   (source)
  • All of these places were basically the same, with the same franchise ghettos, the same strip joints, and even the same people-he kept running into school chums he'd known years before, other Army brats who happened to wind up at the same base at the same time.†   (source)
  • His emotions tell him to go back and kill that manager, get his swords out of the trunk, dive in through the little sliding window like a ninja, track him down through the moiling chaos of the microwaved franchise and confront him in a climactic thick-crust apocalypse.†   (source)
  • He has heard that Uncle Enzo is in the area, and you never knew when he might pull his fleet of limousines and war wagons into a neighborhood franchise and pop in to shake hands with the rank and file.†   (source)
  • To either side of the franchise ghettos, the loglo dwindles across a few shallow layers of development and into a surrounding dimness that is burst here and there by the blaze of a security spotlight in someone's back yard.†   (source)
  • This does not prevent them from taking occasional potshots at the big Uncle Enzo that rises up above the franchise, but those signs can take an amazing amount of abuse before they start looking seedy, Safely inside, Jason signs onto Turfnet.†   (source)
  • Most of it is free of plastic and neon lights, but before long they home in on a short bit of franchise ghetto, built on both sides of the road in a place where it has cut away from the beach some distance.†   (source)
  • They used to claim it was a campground, tried to design the franchise with a rustic motif, but the customers kept chopping up those log-and-plank signs and wooden picnic tables and using them for cooking fires.†   (source)
  • The Alcan-the Alaska Highway-is the world's longest franchise ghetto, a one-dimensional city two thousand miles long and a hundred feet wide, and growing at the rate of a hundred miles a year, or as quickly as people can drive up to the edge of the wilderness and park their bagos in the next available slot.†   (source)
  • He knows that when he gets to the place on CSV5 where the bottom corner of the billboard is obscured by the pseudo-Gothic stained-glass arches of the local Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates franchise, it's time for him to get over into the right lanes where the retards and the bimbo boxes poke along, random, indecisive, looking at each passing franchise's driveway like they don't know if it's a promise or a threat.†   (source)
  • The snout of the van is festooned with every type of high-powered light known to science, like this guy hit a New South Africa franchise on a Saturday night and stole every light off every roll bar, and a grille has been constructed across the front, welded together out of rails torn out of an abandoned railroad somewhere.†   (source)
  • Narcolombia doesn't need security because people are scared just to drive past the franchise at less than a hundred miles an hour (Y.T. always snags a nifty power boost in neighborhoods thick with Narcolombia consulates), and Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong, the grandaddy of all FOQNEs, handles it in a typically Hong Kong way, with robots.†   (source)
  • "Until last week," he said, "my biggest worry was where to expand our falafel franchise, Jamaica Plain or Chestnut Hill.†   (source)
  • She wished her father had never taken on the Jake Steel franchise, but it had become one of his most popular roles.†   (source)
  • A concession here, one there, the designs exclusive, local ownership on a percentage-franchise basis.†   (source)
  • He was dressed in a yellow rain slicker and a captain's hat, which no doubt protected him from the dim daylight and also made him look like the mascot for a gnomish lobster restaurant franchise.†   (source)
  • Business wasn't booming, given that the local economy was in recession (which seemed to befall the area, unfortunately for the Hickeys, a short time after they bought my store), and that Sunny Medical Supply now had to compete with a franchise of a large regional supplier, which had opened in the neighboring town of Highbridge.†   (source)
  • Man o' War became a franchise of sorts for his owner, producing a long string of gifted runners whose winner's circle visits made Riddle one of the most photographed men in sport.†   (source)
  • Major League Baseball's westernmost franchise was in St. Louis, which hosted two teams: the National League Cardinals and the American League Browns.†   (source)
  • Using J. T.'s franchise as a yardstick-3 officers and roughly 50 foot soldiers—there were some 5,300 other men working for those 120 bosses.†   (source)
  • J. T., the college-educated leader of his franchise, reported to a central leadership of about twenty men that was called, without irony, the board of directors.†   (source)
  • I looked for a job with another franchise, but the scouting report on me was hard-working but hard to work with.†   (source)
  • A local sportswriter noted that the boys had become so beloved that if they stayed in New York City, "the Yankees would have to move their franchise to San Francisco."†   (source)
  • But about the franchise: the oldest one of us is around twenty-two and the youngest is about sixteen.†   (source)
  • Standing in his nice clothes by his imported coffee machine in his franchise-given shop, he really thought he was something, successful and complete, really thought he had made it and had nowhere higher to go.†   (source)
  • Throughout history men have labored to place the sovereign franchise in hands that would guard it well and use it wisely, for the benefit of all.†   (source)
  • All systems seek to achieve this by limiting franchise to those who are believed to have the wisdom to use it justly.†   (source)
  • But some of them got fed up, said so loudly, and resigned, forfeiting forever their chances of franchise.†   (source)
  • Mr. Salomon, can you give me a reason — not historical nor theoretical but practical — why the franchise is today limited to discharged veterans?†   (source)
  • The sovereign franchise has been bestowed by all sorts of rules — place of birth, family of birth, race, sex, property, education, age, religion, et cetera.†   (source)
  • I repeat 'all systems'; even the so-called 'unlimited democracies' excluded from franchise not less than one quarter of their populations by age, birth, poll tax, criminal record, or other.†   (source)
  • But if you went "career" and then didn't finish twenty …. well, they could be pretty sticky about your franchise even though they wouldn't keep a man who didn't want to stay.†   (source)
  • Since sovereign franchise is the ultimate in human authority, we insure that all who wield it accept the ultimate in social responsibility — we require each person who wishes to exert control over the state to wager his own life — and lose it, if need be — to save the life of the state.†   (source)
  • , he had been trying to sweat it out and win his franchise; he meant to go into politics — he talked a lot about how, when he got his citizenship, "There will be some changes made — you wait and see."†   (source)
  • Because it has become stylish, with some people — too many people — to serve a term and earn a franchise and be able to wear a ribbon in your lapel which says that you're a vet'ran …. whether you've ever seen combat or not.†   (source)
  • …" — and, on being honorably discharged at the completion of my full term of active service or upon being placed on inactive retired status after having completed such full term, to carry out all duties and obligations and to enjoy all privileges of Federation citizenship including but not limited to the duty, obligation and privilege of exercising sovereign franchise for the rest of my natural life unless stripped of honor by verdict, finally sustained, of court of my sovereign peers."†   (source)
  • We are not asking here for equality and the franchise and the removal of the colour-bar.†   (source)
  • He staged a crusade against a shady streetcar monopoly and caused it to lose its franchise; the franchise was granted to a shadier group, controlled by Gail Wynand.†   (source)
  • He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.†   (source)
  • Every person over twenty-five years old who makes that statement in cold blood ought to be deprived of the franchise.†   (source)
  • He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to them.†   (source)
  • More and more I am convinced that the final solution of the political end of our race problem will be for each state that finds it necessary to change the law bearing upon the franchise to make the law apply with absolute honesty, and without opportunity for double dealing or evasion, to both races alike.†   (source)
  • Oh! dull, useful, delightful things, Factory Acts, Female Inspectors, the Eight Hours' Bill, the Parliamentary Franchise….†   (source)
  • Men, on the other hand, attach penalties to marriage, depriving women of property, of the franchise, of the free use of their limbs, of that ancient symbol of immortality, the right to make oneself at home in the house of God by taking off the hat, of everything that he can force Woman to dispense with without compelling himself to dispense with her.†   (source)
  • The time had long passed when, on our first coming to spend our holidays at Combray, we had been of equal importance, in Franchise's eyes, with my aunt.†   (source)
  • I felt no small degree of pride, either, in Franchise's presence at this return to humane conditions which, not an hour after Mamma had refused to come up to my room and had sent the snubbing message that I was to go to sleep, raised me to the dignity of a grown-up person, brought me of a sudden to a sort of puberty of sorrow, to emancipation from tears.†   (source)
  • Still, as I look back now over the entire period of our freedom, I cannot help feeling that it would have been wiser if some plan could have been put in operation which would have made the possession of a certain amount of education or property, or both, a test for the exercise of the franchise, and a way provided by which this test should be made to apply honestly and squarely to both the white and black races.†   (source)
  • And this lad, who was regarded, and quite rightly, in the town as a 'bad character,' was so abounding in that spirit which had served to decorate the porch of Saint-Andre-des-Champs, and particularly in the feelings of respect due, in Franchise's eyes, to all 'poor invalids,' and, above all, to her own 'poor mistress,' that he had, when he bent down to raise my aunt's head from her pillow, the same air of preraphaelite simplicity and zeal which the little angels in the has-reliefs…†   (source)
  • And so none of those whom she had allowed upstairs to her room, after considerable hesitation and at Franchise's urgent request, and who in the course of their visit had shewn how unworthy they were of the honour which had been done them by venturing a timid: "Don't you think that if you were just to stir out a little on really fine days….†   (source)
  • But with the Catholic Question had come a slight wind of controversy to break the calm: the elderly rector had become occasionally historical and argumentative; and Mr. Spray, the Independent minister, had begun to preach political sermons, in which he distinguished with much subtlety between his fervent belief in the right of the Catholics to the franchise and his fervent belief in their eternal perdition.†   (source)
  • In America, all the citizens who exercise the elective franchise have the right of serving upon a jury.†   (source)
  • The electoral franchise was everywhere placed within certain limits, and made dependent on a certain qualification, which was exceedingly low in the North and more considerable in the South.†   (source)
  • It may even be asserted that the freedom of the magistrate increases as the elective franchise is extended, and as the duration of the time of office is shortened.†   (source)
  • Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides.†   (source)
  • The electoral franchise has been conferred upon the negroes in almost all the States in which slavery has been abolished; but if they come forward to vote, their lives are in danger.†   (source)
  • In the United States, except slaves, servants, and paupers in the receipt of relief from the townships, there is no class of persons who do not exercise the elective franchise, and who do not indirectly contribute to make the laws.†   (source)
  • In New England, for instance, the selectmen of each township are bound to draw up the list of persons who are to serve on the jury; the only rule which is laid down to guide them in their choice is that they are to select citizens possessing the elective franchise and enjoying a fair reputation.†   (source)
  • Again, it may be objected that the poor are never invested with the sole power of making the laws; but I reply, that wherever universal suffrage has been established the majority of the community unquestionably exercises the legislative authority; and if it be proved that the poor always constitute the majority, it may be added, with perfect truth, that in the countries in which they possess the elective franchise they possess the sole power of making laws.†   (source)
  • The senators are elected by an indirect application of universal suffrage; for the legislatures which name them are not aristocratic or privileged bodies which exercise the electoral franchise in their own right; but they are chosen by the totality of the citizens; they are generally elected every year, and new members may constantly be chosen who will employ their electoral rights in conformity with the wishes of the public.†   (source)
  • And therefore, said the hermit, this valley and franchise we will hold of Sir Tristram.†   (source)
  • Here may ye see, how excellent franchise* *generosity In women is when they them *narrow advise.†   (source)
  • And therefore, said the hermit, this valley and franchise we will hold of Sir Tristram.†   (source)
  • Who shall me give teares to complain The death of gentiless, and of franchise,* *generosity That all this worlde had in his demaine,* *dominion And yet he thought it mighte not suffice, So full was his corage* of high emprise?†   (source)
  • …her truth* *troth, pledged word And in his heart he caught of it great ruth,* *pity Considering the best on every side, *That from his lust yet were him lever abide,* *see note <30>* Than do so high a churlish wretchedness* *wickedness Against franchise,* and alle gentleness; *generosity For which in fewe words he saide thus; "Madame, say to your lord Arviragus, That since I see the greate gentleness Of him, and eke I see well your distress, That him were lever* have shame (and that…†   (source)
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