Word: apartness
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...clothing and eventually began operations in a Los Angeles factory in 2000. Despite relying on sex in his advertising and personally racking up sexual assault charges from both models and employees, Charney turned his business into a successful retailer and wholesaler that provided styles for all ages and sizes. Apart from making comfortable and colorful clothes, American Apparel distinguishes itself as a “non-sweatshop” producer, pays its employees an average wage of $12 an hour, and is actively campaigning for immigration reform. In 2007, it posted sales of around $387 million, and it has opened...
...developed background, “City of Ember” ultimately uplifts with its strong central relationship and hopeful tone. Two hundred years later, hope is diminishing as the generator—the city’s power source—starts to fail and Ember begins to fall apart. As one citizen dismally notes, the “city is going black for good,” just like Earth. All hope is lost until an unlikely friendship is born between Lina, played by Saoirse Ronan, and Doon, played by Harry Treadaway. The pair discovers one of the city?...
...Mongolia to the Pepsi logo. Normally, students make a short three-minute film or podcast every week that relates to the book or readings discussed. Kuriyama said that while in his experience, students care very little about papers once they’ve been turned in—apart from their grade—his students have e-mailed their short films to friends, parents, and classmates. And every fall, there is public showing of the student-made movies. “When the papers were written they were just for the professor, but the movies and podcasts...
...happiness. Lyric-sheet readers may wonder if she's up to it. Her usual evocations and minimalist stanzas are replaced by lines like "You're drinking in a bar in Amsterdam/ I'm thinking baby far out, be my man," proof that love and goofiness are but a beer apart...
...This year's debates were good. Lots of voters watched them. And yet they seemed almost evanescent. What will be remembered, apart from Palin's enormous winks? McCain wanted to change a deadly fact that has threatened to crush his campaign from the beginning: he's a Republican loaded with the baggage of George W. Bush. He had to rewrite the script. Obama? All he's had to do is read the one that was written...