Word: acorn
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...Nevada authorities raided the Las Vegas offices off the community group ACORN - Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - on allegations that the group submitted fraudulent voter registration cards. , featuring nonexistent addresses, duplicate applicants and in at least some cases, the names of the Dallas Cowboys football team. The McCain campaign has also released an ad linking Barack Obama to ACORN, reiterating the voter fraud allegations and claiming the organization "forced banks to issue risky home loans, the same types of loans that caused the financial crisis we're in today...
...ACORN was founded by community organizer Wade Rathke in 1970, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Rathke, who had worked as an organizer for the National Welfare Rights Organization in Missouri, wanted to start a group that worked with an entire community, not just welfare recipients. The early version of ACORN helped people obtain clothing and furniture; it campaigned for schools to provide healthy, affordable lunches and promoted Vietnam Veterans' rights. Since then the organization has branched out into housing and workers' rights advocacy; it has helped hundreds of thousands of working-class and poor citizens obtain home loans, register to vote...
...difference. It's not just how the food we eat is grown that matters, but how it's packaged, how it gets to our plates, even what we do with the leftovers. Just ask chef Arthur Potts Dawson. In 2006, he and business partner Jamie Grainger-Smith launched Acorn House and declared it London's first truly eco-friendly restaurant. Two years on, the award-winning team has pushed the city's eco-friendly standards to the next level with Water House Restaurant on the Regent's Canal...
...helped with various forms of assistance and 35 people were "taken off the street and into permanent housing." (A 2007 update, due out soon, will show that shelter beds now make up less than 40% of the homeless care system, down from 60% in 2003). But groups such as ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), a 37-year-old advocacy organization for low income families, complain that such numbers are too small to make much of a dent in a massive problem...
...home? Is it using some owl camouflage power on us? Is this even the right tree? In the past hour Franzen, 47, who's a pretty hard-core bird watcher, has already spotted California quail, some towhees, a scrub jay, a flicker and a few acorn woodpeckers. So far no owl, though...