Word: backyarders
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...volunteers from the Baptist Church had come by earlier in the day and cut down the battered, ancient oak tree that had shaded her backyard. It had fallen, ripped up by the winds like a weed. A small sign in the yard remained in place: "She who plants a garden, plants happiness." Her barbecue and garden shed had stayed put. Francis laughs but not heartily...
...Hollywood released several movies critical of the war on terrorism. Despite featuring such stars as Tom Cruise and Reese Witherspoon, they fizzled at the box office. An American Carol pumps up the war, as the ghosts reveal to Malone the "real America," with visits to ground zero and a backyard family picnic at the home of his nephew, who is about to ship out to Iraq. And though conservatives aren't exactly known to rush the box office like comic-book fans, McEveety remains sanguine. "It's great business to service all audiences, including conservative audiences," he says...
...created, at home and on the road, in his house. "We have the concept of throwing something away, but in reality, we're just tossing it over our shoulder and forgetting about it," says Chameides. "It wouldn't be so funny if it was really just in your backyard." (Hear Chameides talk about his trash habits on this week's Greencast...
...example in our backyard, consider Lehman Brothers. Lehman was so flush, or at least felt so flush, that in May 2007 it sublet 12 prime midtown-Manhattan floors of the Time & Life Building - across the street from Lehman headquarters - from Time Inc., which publishes this magazine. Lehman signed on for $350 million over 10 years. (It's not clear what kind of hit, if any, Time Inc. will now face...
fruit philanthropist n.--Someone who voluntarily harvests surplus fruit and then donates it to food banks and centers for the elderly USAGE: "Thus was born North Berkeley Harvest, part of a small but expanding movement of backyard urban gleaners--they might be called fruit philanthropists." --New York Times, Sept...