Search Details

Word: collaring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Perhaps most important is the opportunity to recast the region's image, local leaders say. In the national psyche, Cleveland remains a blue collar factory town in a conservative farm state, neither of which are particularly innovative or gay-friendly. "We've never really gone to the heartland," says Schaaff, who lives in Anchorage, Alaska. "Here was an opportunity to boldly go to a place that is perhaps not recognizable throughout the world as a gay center, but where real change is starting to happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forget Chicago: Cleveland Gets the Gay Games | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...Henry!" he says. Henry is a big black schnauzer-poodle mix--a schnoodle, in the words of his owner, Tracy Kivell, another Duke anthropologist. Kivell holds on to Henry's collar so that he can only gaze at the biscuit. (See pictures of dogs learning new tricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secrets Inside Your Dog's Mind | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...Jones, the social activist turned environmental czar, a few times before he joined the Obama Administration, when he was still criss-crossing the country spreading his message: that the creation of green jobs could revitalize America's eroding blue-collar class. I can't judge if some of his past statements and actions - his signature on a letter suggesting former President George W. Bush might have allowed the Sept. 11 attacks to occur, his 1990s membership in an avowedly anti-capitalist group - should have disqualified him for government service. But I do know his resignation is a loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Van Jones' Ideas on Green Jobs Should Stay | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

Jones' genius was in welding the two issues together: hence "green jobs," new employment opportunities in solar panel installation or wind turbine manufacturing that could reduce carbon emissions even as they provided steady pay for struggling blue-collar workers. It was perfect - something for everyone - and it's no surprise that President Obama returned to the theme again and again on the campaign trail and in the White House. But it was Jones who said it first, and best. (See the top 10 green ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Van Jones' Ideas on Green Jobs Should Stay | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...David Schindler, a partner at Latham & Watkins who specializes in white collar and government investigations, says "human frailty" will always be a factor, and that would hold true even if tougher regulations and oversights had been in force over the past decade. "When you're a regulator and you get an allegation of wrongdoing [regarding] somebody who occupied the position in Nasdaq that Madoff did at that time, the human condition is such that it might be hard for somebody to start investigating or shooting at someone of his stature [knowing that] if they're wrong, their career and others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Its Madoff Report, Can Victims Sue the SEC? | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | Next