Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greens have a good strategy. Reluctant to be called anti-business, they refer to "market campaigns" rather than consumer boycotts. To deter corporations from taking timber from untouched parts of British Columbia's Great Bear Forest, the world's largest vestige of coastal temperate rain forest, the Rainforest Action Network, along with the Sierra Club and other groups, used a stick and carrot on the big customers of lumber companies. The activists blasted Home Depot for buying Great Bear wood, but when the chain stopped, they ran ads praising the decision...
...fast. I just saw a Rainforest Action Network ad thanking Home Depot for changing its purchasing policies...
...course, it helps that we picked the hottest sport in the stock market to create our league around. Both of our teams (see thestreet.com for the rosters) have had big moves since their inception a month ago. But I know we would have sat out most of the real action in the likes of CMGI and Internet Capital Group--two league phenoms--had my associate not taken them in the top rounds of our mock draft...
Kosovo conflict 1,644 Clinton sex scandal 460 Columbine high school shootings 298 N.Y.S.E. and NASDAQ market action 266 Hurricane Floyd 227 EgyptAir 990 crash 177 Death of John E Kennedy Jr. 166 Tornado season 131 Heaith-care reform 123 Guns...
...face hidden by a paper-bag helmet, plays an improvised war game with toy soldiers on his kitchen table. An explosion startles him, the room bursts into flames, and a giant totes him out of the late 20th century and into 1st century Rome. Hence, the action will take place in both ages. Imperial warriors, caked with the dust of conquest, tramp through the Coliseum like bulky action figures. Their leader Titus (Hopkins) is a straight-spoken military man of the past; his rival, the emperor Saturninus (Cumming), is pure oil of modern politician, oozing endearments and threats, riding through...