Thursday, May 13, 2010

Not-so-free iced coffee day at Dunkin Donuts

Summer must be brewing because it’s free icedAre you happy??? coffee day at Dunkin' Donuts. Well, some Dunkin' locations. Er, actually, only participating

locations in 13 of the hundreds of cities that Dunkin' Donuts serves are giving away the stuff.The select franchise locations are in Washington,

D.C., and cities in five states: Arizona (Phoenix), Maryland (Baltimore, Salisbury), Ohio (Cleveland, Youngstown), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia,

Pittsburgh), and Virginia (Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, Norfolk, Richmond, and Roanoke).Maybe it's 14 locations, since Dunkin' Donuts in New

York City are offering their own promotion from 4 to 10 p.m.Confused? You're not the only one.Apparently, when word leaked out over the

Internet that some locations but not others were offering the free product, some people got angry at the Massachusetts-based chain.

Customers from Maine to North Carolina were posting messages Tuesday on Dunkin’s Facebook page complaining about the lack of free coffee in

their town.“Yea, y [sic] state something and then not follow through with it entirely?? What kind of business is that??” writes one customer.

Fighting words from another: “DD needs to get their act together or people are going to boycott.”So why free java for a select few? A Dunkin'

Donuts spokesperson explained via e-mail that: "As part of our 60th birthday celebration, Dunkin’ Donuts is offering awhere? when? who? variety of regional

promotions throughout the year rather than a national Free Iced Coffee Day."Technically, customers don’t need tomy code and project live near one of the special

13 locations to score a free beverage. Last week Dunkin' Donuts started offering select beverages gratis to customers who registered for its

Dunkin' Perks programwhat do you think about them in NBA? online. Just surrender your name, address, date of birth, and e-mail, and a coupon for a drink of your choosing will make

its way to you.But that's notlife is a joke
exactly free, is it?Just like Mama said, there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Or beverage.
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It’s not good news,” says William Frey, Impossible made possiblechief demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington. “It only ticked up for local moves, not

long-distance moves. I think the lattersomething will happen is a more significant story than the former – more college-educated people, more young people trying to

move up in their careers. They are You're angry. You're hurting.the lifeblood of migration and growth.”Another concerning although consistent trend: People with incomes

below the poverty line were more likely to move locally – and less likely to make long-distance moves – than others.
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people without college degreeshelp me, help you For them, it’s been a double whammy: Their jobs have disappeared, their equity has disappeared, and they’re

more likely to be stuck.”But Americans’ recent immobility may include a silver lining. Moving tends to take a toll on people. Staying put, by

contrast, reaps social benefits like stronger family and community connections. Communities with lower levels of mobility tend to enjoy higher

levels of trust and well-being, Mr. Frey says.“People have their kids around them longer. There’s a stronger sense of community, but you’d like to

think that would happen more for voluntary reasons,” he says.Still, relatively speaking, Americans are highly mobile, says Florida.
“Americans still are among the most mobile people on earth,” he says. “It’s long been shown that the ability of the American economy to be

innovative, productive, prosperous has lots to do with labor mobility.”The US may not restore that mobility for a long time, says Professor

Johnson of the University of New Hampshire.“This has probably been a sobering experience for a lot of people,” he says. “I don’t think we’ll see

a return to the exuberant levels of mobility we saw earlier.”

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Member of unit linked to 'Dirty Dozen' dies in Pa

PHILADELPHIA – John ralph lauren polo shirts"Jack" Agnew, one of the original members of a U.S. Army unit that operated behind enemy lines in World War II and is often credited with having loosely inspired the movie "The Dirty Dozen," has died at age 88.
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Tales of the unit's exploits and a Stars and Stripes military newspaper photograph are said to have inspired "The Dirty Dozen," not because any of the unit's members were convicts like the movie's characters — they weren't — but because of their reputation for brawling, drinking and spending time in the stockadea plan to make all of this right.In interviews, Agnew, a private first class, said that came directly from the unit's leader, Jake McNiece.
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