For years, a holiday in the Dominican Republic entailed staying at a walled-in, cookie-cutter resort.
The idea is to indigenize engineering and make the process cookie-cutter to reduce cost.
The alternative pumps out cookie-cutter, boring, predictable brands that no one wants to, um, listen to.
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Because she is not of the cookie-cutter Hollywood kind, with their borrowed strapless dresses with mermaid hems.
But you'll get more than a cookie-cutter ranch house with a white picket fence for your cash.
Another potential pitfall is that higher-end houses are much harder to value than lower priced cookie-cutter dwellings.
Creating cookie-cutter descriptions for either sort of manager is somewhat futile because of the personalized touches required.
Knowing how to build a successful sales organization is not a cookie-cutter process.
Phoenix , Arizona, is possibly the most soulless, cookie-cutter city I have visited.
"All the sorority girls had cookie-cutter form, and I looked different, " she said.
Jim Long, a spokesman for the Fire Department, explained that the procedure is "pretty much cookie-cutter" at this point.
Banks that will lend to small businesses will resort to selling limited and cookie-cutter product offerings with zero flexibility.
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It's this trend towards "cookie-cutter" cinema that has fans of bad movies worried.
Yet another part of this cookie-cutter production is to lay out all its manufacturing plants the same way around the globe.
They bought a two-story house on a street with cookie-cutter homes that range in color from brown to beige to peach.
At first, the Japanese inn experience seems sublime compared to your typical cookie-cutter Hyatt hotel-like experience in other parts of the world.
It's some of the most interesting and varied in Europe today, stepping happily away from the cookie-cutter sounds that dominate other countries.
"It is for people who don't want a cookie-cutter layout, " she said.
Answers to the questionnaire are feed into a computer that spits out a recommended allocation and then slap investors into pre-approved cookie-cutter portfolios.
Another advantage: Small builders are more willing to offer extra services such as flexible floor plans, as opposed to a handful of cookie-cutter layouts.
Silver talks wistfully about a utopian future where everyone creates their own unique space instead of settling for cookie-cutter homes or furnishings or decorations.
"There is absolutely no cookie-cutter solution, " said Chris Smith, a civilian instructor at the academy with many years experience in U.S. Special Forces operations.
But the cookie-cutter anomie of chain restaurants may actually encourage this kind of abuse: was she lashing out at the server or the corporation?
Their style was Visual Rock - an in-your-face attitude that combined flamboyant dressing and an angry sound that rejected the cookie-cutter principles of Japanese society.
I'm just an average American, a cookie-cutter, average, United States-loving American and I want to make sure we stay on top as a superpower economically.
Instead of writing about that unique experience and the discipline and stamina it required, he wrote a cookie-cutter essay about wanting to work in finance.
Situated on a busy corner in cookie-cutter-home-laden, Bethesda, Maryland, ribbons of wall and glass surrounding a central courtyard flood the unconventional dwelling with light.
They said they felt they got cookie-cutter treatment, with slides pasted from used PowerPoint presentations and work handled by junior analysts rather than real personal service.
Several of the biggest drivers are look-alike, cleanshaven white guys in tracksuits, and their cars, which now hew to the same technical specifications, are equally cookie-cutter.
Because we already know how to manufacture lots of silicon chips inexpensively using a batch, cookie-cutter approach, we can make micromachines cheaply, sometimes even 100 times cheaper than their traditional counterparts.
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