Showing posts with label Recordsetting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recordsetting. Show all posts

Thursday, 2 August 2012

Chick-fil-A Has 'Record-Setting' Sales on Appreciation Day

Chick-fil-A's corporate mission, as stated on a plaque at company headquarters (and by Cathy), is to "glorify God." It is the only national fast-food chain that closes on Sunday so operators can go to church and spend time with their families

Despite an inescapable torrent of opposition from popular tech blogs, Twitter users, and city mayors against Chick-fil-A, the self-avowed anti-gay marriage restaurant enjoyed record-breaking sales yesterday. Had I just gazed

But while some may view Chick-fil-A's product as trivial, the broader questions at stake certainly are not. Indeed, the fast food chain's unexpected entrance into a national debate on gay rights comes as part of a long American tradition of fighting

For two days, the surprise victory of Ted Cruz was all anybody could talk about. The Tea Party upstart who beat back establishment candidate David Dewhurst for the Texas Senate was the biggest sign yet of the enduring — and growing — political

Chicago Cardinal Francis George has stepped in the ring on Chick-fil-A's gay marriage controversy in a blog post, criticizing Mayor Rahm Emanuel's statement that the fast food chain's values “are not Chicago values.” “Recent comments by those who


Monday, 30 July 2012

Record-setting gold for Dana Vollmer

It's not even a full weekend into the 2012 Summer Olympics and already records are being smashed by Team USA. Swimmer Dana Vollmer stole the Olympic title.

United States' Dana Vollmer competes in the women's 100-meter butterfly swimming final at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Sunday, July 29, 2012. Vollmer set a new

LONDON – Dana Vollmer won a gold medal at the Olympics and set a world record, too. Not bad for someone who didn't even qualify four years ago. On a night featuring a relay duel between the Australians and the Americans, Vollmer got things started with

LONDON — Don't ask Dana Vollmer about how the 100-meter butterfly final went four years ago in Beijing, a race won by Australia's Libby Trickett. Vollmer wasn't even paying attention. She was in Fiji, learning how to swim again. In truth, Vollmer, who

View: Larger | Hide. United States' Dana Vollmer celebrates her gold medal win in the women's 100-meter butterfly swimming final at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Sunday, July 29, 2012. Photo: AP / AP