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McDonald–Kreitman test

In 1991, John H. McDonald and Martin Kreitman derived the McDonald–Kreitman test while performing an experiment with Drosophila (fruit flies) and their differences in amino acid sequence of the alcohol dehydrogenase gene.


Adam McDonald

McDonald's area of expertise is 20th century and industrial antiques, and his work has been reviewed on the ABC television program Auction Room.

Albrecht Unsöld

His analysis of the B0 star Tau Scorpii, obtained on his 1939 visit to Yerkes and McDonald Observatories, provided the first detailed analysis of a star other than the Sun, and he was able to determine the physics and composition of the star’s atmosphere.

Anna Angelina Wolfers

Her face became famous through ads and commercials for companies like Vodafone (2004) Pizza Hut (2008), REWE (since 2009) and McDonald's (2011).

Cambell Kenneford

Kenneford first begun modelling at the age of 14 after joining Rascals Modelling Agency, which led to jobs for Disney, McDonald's, Joe Bloggs and others.

Campamento de Verano 1

Burger King was the first to remove their adverting, followed by Mutua Madrileña and McDonald's.

Center for Individual Rights

Its founders, Michael McDonald and Michael Greve had previously worked together at the conservative Washington Legal Foundation.

Clarence McDonald

McDonald received an Honorable Discharge and was awarded a National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, and Vietnam Campaign Medal.

Clint Tracy

These included Jeff Glenn, an executive with Delta Companies and former aide to former U.S. Senator Jim Talent (R-Mo.); and Wayne Wallingford, a retired Air Force officer and head of human resources for McDonald's of Southeast Missouri.

Defence Housing Authority, Lahore

DHA, like the rest of Lahore, is overflowing with food lovers and has a lot of variety of foods on offer, from fast food chains such as McDonald's, Hardees, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut to upper-scale restaurants specialising in Pakistani and Western cuisine.

Edward F. McDonald

McDonald was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1891, until his death in Harrison on November 5, 1892 just a few days before the Congressional election.

Elizabeth McDonald

Elizabeth McDonald (born 1985, Plano, Texas, United States) is an American painter.

Forrest McDonald

McDonald and the late Grady McWhiney presented the "Celtic hypothesis" stating that the distinctiveness of Southern culture derives largely from the majority of the Southern population being descendants of Celtic herdsmen while the majority of the Northern population was the descendants of farmers.

In his book We The People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution, McDonald argued that Charles A. Beard (in his book An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States) had misinterpreted the economic interests involved in writing the Constitution.

Gail McDonald

McDonald and her husband moved to North Carolina in 2004, and she took a position with the state Ports Authority.

Giles, Giles and Fripp

In 1971, Michael Giles and Ian McDonald released an album together as McDonald and Giles.

Harlan J. Smith Telescope

The telescope was completed in 1968 with substantial NASA assistance, and is named after Harlan James Smith, the first Texas director of McDonald Observatory.

Hastings, Nebraska

The museum currently houses the Lied Super Screen Theatre, McDonald Planetarium, and local and regional exhibits including the largest diorama of whooping and Sandhill cranes in the world.

Hmong language

In 2012 McDonald's introduced its first Hmong language advertising in the United States at a restaurant in Minneapolis.

Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee

Its special focus in 2001 was on the working conditions of toy workers for Hasbro, Mattel, McDonald's and Disney in Southern China.

How I Became Stupid

As he tries to integrate himself into what he considers the uncaring and superficial crowd of society, he forces himself to obsess over his appearance by exercising at the gym, although he also eats at McDonald's and tempts himself with other capitalist merchandise made by unethical means, which loses him his four closest friends as he changes his entire lifestyle.

Hyper V-Ball

This game was featured in the "sports game section" of the October 1993 issue of Nintendo Power magazine where the producer of the game McO'River was humorously confused for a new trout burger at McDonald's.

Jefferson Center Dunmore

The highest level program finds jobs for the students at places including Allied, McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Sam's Club, and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.

Jimmy Spencer

In 1994, he drove the #27 McDonald's Ford for Junior Johnson and won his first two and so far only career Cup races, at Daytona and Talladega.

Joël Bouchard

He worked for a number of years as a TV hockey analyst for Québec's Le Réseau des sports (RDS), also producing and hosting his own show called "L'Académie de hockey McDonald".

John R. Montgomery

Montgomery worked at Burnett for 33 years, where he served as Executive Vice President, Executive Creative Director and handled accounts including McDonald’s (domestic and global), Minute Maid (Coca-Cola), Nintendo, Kellogg, Procter & Gamble, Allstate, 7-Up, Keebler, Green Giant, Miller Beers, United Airlines, Kraft Foods, Nestle and Samsonite.

Justin McDonald

McDonald's first major film saw him appearing alongside Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor in the Beatrix Potter biopic Miss Potter as the young William Heelis, who encouraged the young Beatrix Potter to write and illustrate her stories.

Kenny Tran

He first began playing poker in 1992 at a bowling alley while working at McDonald's.

Kim Peyton

Peyton-McDonald was honored in 1975 with the Bill Hayward Johnny Carpenter Prep athlete of the year award as the Outstanding Amateur Athlete in Oregon.

Lamorne Morris

Morris can be seen in commercials including ones for State Farm Insurance, Taco Bell, Twix, Miller Lite, Las Vegas, 7 Up, Edge, Sears, Microsoft Windows, Chili's, McDonald's, Ford and Hornitos Tequila.

Laura Alemán

Made commercial for Burger King, Ana G. Mendez, Radio Shack, McDonald, Medalla Light, Transit Authority, Pan Pepin and the most recent T-Mobile Flash puppy with director Carlitos Ruiz Ruiz known for his film EVIL LOVES decisions and the campaign of the People's Bank directed by Marcos Zurinaga.

MaDonal

Sociologist George Ritzer sees MaDonal as part of a trend of other countries developing their own regional variations of McDonald’s.

Marble Mountain Wilderness

These include crested cinquefoil or crested potentilla (Potentilla cristae), Siskiyou fireweed (Epilobium siskiyouense), and McDonald's rock cress (Arabis blepharophylla var. macdonaldiana), a perennial found in conifer forests of California and Oregon.

McAfrika

Norwegian Church Aid and the Norwegian Red Cross, which were both conducting humanitarian operations in southern Africa at the time, said that McDonald's decision was insensitive, crass and ill-considered.

McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure

Based on the McDonald's fast food franchise and four of its corporate mascots from McDonaldland (Ronald McDonald, Hamburglar, Grimace, and Birdie the Early Bird), the game follows the adventures of Ronald McDonald in an attempt to find four pieces of a treasure map, and ultimately, the treasure to which it leads.

McDonald's Young Entertainers

The show featured some New Zealand teenagers who are now famous, including television personality Drew Neemia, cricketer Ronald Karaitiana, singer Hayley Westenra, actress Michelle Ang and concert pianist John Chen.

Misa Eguchi

In 2014, she won her first $50,000 ITF event title at the McDonald's Burnie International, defeating Elizaveta Kulichkova in the final.

New Zealand Idol

The show was once again hosted by Dominic Bowden, with Jackie Clarke replacing Fiona McDonald, who was pregnant with her first child, as one of the three judges.

Ole-Kristian Hope

Back from the United States in 1991 he started working in industry as financial Analyst for Norsk Hydro, and was auditor Coopers & Lybrand and CFO at McDonald’s Norway.

Oonagh McDonald

McDonald is currently a director of the British Portfolio Trust, Complaints Commissioner for the London Metal Exchange, ICE Futures and Virt-x and a member of International Monetary Fund's Expert Roster.

Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc

During the election campaign some Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc members suspected Our Ukraine to be responsible for leaflets aimed against Yulia Tymoshenko, like fake invitations to celebrate her birthday at McDonald's.

Phil McDonald

Philip McDonald is an English recording studio audio engineer, best known as the engineer for EMI and later for Apple Records during the Beatles' studio years, along with Geoff Emerick and others.

Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class

Kelley illustrates these facets by referencing the lyrics of Ice Cube, who in "A Bird in the Hand"—a track on 1991's Death Certificate—tells the story of a young man forced to sell crack to survive when the only job he can obtain after graduation is an underpaying one at McDonald's.

Ronald MacDonald

Ronald McDonald, advertising clown for McDonald's fast-food restaurants

The Garth Brooks Collection

This album was only available at McDonald's restaurants for a limited time to raise money for the Ronald McDonald Children's Charities.

Treat Me Good

"Treat Me Good" is a song written by Tania Doko, Joanne McDonald and James Roche for Bachelor Girl's first album Waiting for the Day (1998).

Trevor Dwyer-Lynch

Born and raised in Moss Side and Salford, trained in Drama and Performing Arts at City College Manchester in 1990, Dwyer-Lynch has appeared in numerous television and theatre productions, merging both serious roles—such as "Gloucester" in Shakespeare's King Lear—to his best known comedic nice guy role in Coronation Street as Patrick Tussell the taxi-driver working for Steve McDonald (2002–2005).

Warren McDonald

McDonald ran unsuccessfully for the Country Party in the 1946 federal election, a fact which did not prevent the Chifley government appointing him to advise the prices commissioner in 1947.

Waverly Films

Their members' portfolios include films commissioned for MTV, VH1, Channel 102, McDonald's, Heinz Ketchup and bands such as The Rapture, Fatboy Slim, LCD Soundsystem, Death Cab For Cutie, and TV on the Radio.

Yourself!Fitness

In a 2006 fitness promotional campaign with the popular fast-food chain McDonald's, purchasers of an "Active Meal" (consisting of a salad and bottled water) could receive one of four Yourself!Fitness DVDs, playable in a standard DVD player, which contains a rigid workout regimen also led by Maya.


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