Word: actioners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rainmaker, when my job is to make friends and to have connections....Personally, I can only see the professional side of my future. I can see myself with grandkids but no kids. The in-between part in kind of hazy. I just want to be where the action is--Chicago...
...early action applicants will start this year's holiday season with cheer when they learn that they have been accepted to Harvard's Class...
Gellert's counterpart in the backcourt, freshman point guard Elliot Prasse-Freeman, will be back in action tonight after sustaining an eye injury on Saturday and being forced to leave the game...
...Microsoft of the genetically modified food industry, Monsanto, is under attack yet again - and, as in the case of the Seattle monolith, its opponents are charging monopoly. Tuesday, lawyers for six farmers filed a class action suit against the seed giant, charging Monsanto with conspiring to control the world's vast seed trade. The suit also claims Monsanto and other companies rush their products to market without testing them adequately for safety. While Monsanto's genetic-engineering business has been the target of many attacks over the past several years, particularly in Europe, Tuesday's suit marks a new tack...
...awareness of this issue," says Kluger. "Something huge, like a massive scare, will happen and get people's attention all at once." Or, he adds, there will simply be an incremental pileup of information, culminating, as in the case of global warming, in a raised consciousness. Tuesday's legal action may not be the straw that breaks Monsanto's back, but, as the plaintiffs' lawyers hope, it could be among the first pebbles heralding an avalanche of negative public opinion...