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ABC, television exports, 39 Academy Awards, 18 Adorno, Theodor, 197 aerospace and defense, largest companies, 70 Afman, Frans, 24 Africa: corruption, 135; tribalism, 124–25 Airborne Express, 167 airfreight, 160, 166–71; in China, 171; collection of systems, 167; deregulation and, 169; Emery Air Freight promotions , 169; Federal Express starts up, 169–70; Ford role in, 167; history of, 167–69; 9/11 effect on, 166; range of goods shipped, 170–71; terminals in developing countries, 171; WWII effect on, 168–69 airlines, 70–71 Albania, corruption, 130–31 Algeria, gender roles, 97 al-Hariri, Abd al-Rahman, 126 Almodóvar, Pedro, 28, 32 Althusser, Louis, 197 Altman, Robert, 31 Amazon, 186–88 American Indian languages, 14 Americanization of the World (Stead), 191–93 “Americanize”: generalization of term, 197–98; globalization and, 197–200; history of term, 195–98 Angry Wind (Taylor), 124 anime, 35 Annan, Kofi, 125 Antonio, Robert J., 79 AOL, 110, 185 Apple Computer, 77 Arabic language, 9, 10–13 Argentina: currency devaluation, 156–57, 204; default on bonds, 132; tax collections , 141–42 ATMs, 144–52; changing spending habits, 152; in China, 149–50, 204; correlation with consumer spending, 150; in France, 144–47; in Hong Kong and Singapore , 151–52; IBM and, 146–47; in India, 150–51; instrumentality of, 148– 49; invention of, 145–46; in Japan, 144– 48; logistics of, 203; MasterCard and, 147; slang about, 152; in South Korea, 149 Australia, 25, 165 Avignon, 4, 81, 118. See also France Azcarraga family, 43–44 Bagehot, Walter, 152–53 Bahasa Indonesian, 8, 10–12 Bali, 84; counterfeiting, 137 Baltic nations, smuggling, 137 Barber, Benjamin, 122 bar codes, viii, 179–83; Collins’s role in, 180–81; grocery stores and, 181–82; IBM Index bar codes (continued) and, 182; Lauer and, 181–82; modern variants of, 182; RCA and, 180–81; Silver and Woodland invent, 179–80; slow spread of, 182; Sylvania and, 180; use in underdeveloped nations, 182–83 Bar-Tal, Daniel, 125–26 Barwari, Nasreen, 97 Bass Brothers, 121, 155–56 Beaujolais Nouveau, 92 Bend It Like Beckham, 25–26 Bengali, 10–13 Berger, Peter, 39 Berlusconi, Silvio, 48 Bertelsmann, 69, 201–2 beverage companies, 73 Boddy, William, 39–40 body image, 99–100 Boeing, 70, 168 Bollac, Burton, 7–8 Bonnano, Alessandro, 79 Bourdieu, Pierre, 77–78, 80, 89 Bribe Payers Index, 134–35 Bristol-Myers Squibb, 72 Britain: anti-foreigner sentiment, 127; banking habits, 152–53; brands in U.S., 201; oil industry, 72; work ethic, 110 British East India Co., 153 British Petroleum, 3, 68, 72 Burdett, John, 99 Burger King, 1, 2 El Callejón de los Milagros, 28–32 Cambodia: ATMs, 144; corruption, 129 Camby, Marcus, 4 Carrefour, 74, 77, 94 cartoon production, 50 CBS, program exports, 39 Celestica, 161 cell phones, 74, 87 census, U.S., 14 Chadha, Gurinder, 25–26 Chaucer, 8 Childs, Richard, 24 China: ATMs, 149–50; blocking Internet, 189; compared to U.S., 196; counterfeiting , 138–40; fast food, 56; food systems, 94; gender roles, 96; languages, 9, 84; oil companies, 72, 202; television, 43; websites, 188 Chira, Susan, 102 Cinecitta studios (Rome), 36 Citibank, 79 The Clash of Civilizations (Huntington), 9 clothing, 4; trade in used, 5–7 Coca-Cola, 4, 23, 28, 73, 77, 79 Collins, David J., 180–81 Columbia studios, 25 communicative distance, 85–88; in Africa, 85–86; in Britain, 87; in France, 85; in Iraq, 86; in Japan, 85–87; measures of, 87; in U.S., 86 Compass Group, 59, 76 Comp USA, 200 computing: Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn create TCP/IP, 184; and globalization , 183–90; Google’s impact, 183–85; search engines, 184–86; shopping websites, 186–88 ConAgra, 73, 204 Cones, John W., 24, 33 construction companies, 75; equipment companies, 76 consumer products companies, 73 container freight, 171–79; “containers” defined, 173–74; effects of investment in, 178; Vince Grey and, 173; history of, 173– 74; in Hong Kong, 179–80; Japan and, 175–77; largest carriers of, 172; longshoremen ’s objections to, 174; Moscow meeting of ISO, 174; Fred Muller and Herbert Hall’s role in developing, 173; ports in developing world, 176–78; role in terrorism, 178; U.S. cities’ problems with, 176–77; U.S. ports for, 173; U.S. strikes about, 174 copyright, 4 corruption: as alternate social form, 136– 37; and globalization, 129–36; Perceptions Index of, 132–34 counterfeiting, 137–40; in Bali, 137; in Baltics, 137; of CDs, 138...

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