Word: colored
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...discrimination" to meet numerical goals. As leaked to reporters last week, the proposed revision states that the order does not require businesses "to utilize any numerical quota, goal or ratio, or otherwise to discriminate against or grant any preference to any individual or group on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin." It adds that "a failure to adopt or attain any statistical measures" would not, by itself, be wrong...
...northwest of San Francisco. The restaurant appeals both to stylish celebrities like Angela Lansbury and casually dressed locals. Charlene and Vernon Rollins, the husband and wife who run this restaurant, grow most of their own produce in a sprawling garden on their grounds. It is now a shimmer of color with orange peppers, green to red tomatoes, emerald zucchini and rose-gold peaches. The Rollinses raise much of their own poultry and serve most meats and fish simply grilled. Their delectable goat cheese and bacon pizza (the best dish sampled at a recent Sunday lunch) looks like a mille-fleurs...
...photos on your hard drive, arranging them in neat folders (just the way you named them) and making them more easily accessible. Everything you might want to do with your images-view, edit, email, print, post to your blog-is within easy reach. You can fix red-eye, adjust color and contrast, or add special tints or a switch to sepia tone. The Order button gives you a short cut for placing a print order with websites such as Shutterfly and Snapfish. The email button automatically downsizes the file before sending it to make it easier on the recipient...
...talking about coffee. Standing beside tables of drying coffee under the beating sun, Wolfowitz, just two weeks into his new role as president of the World Bank, picked up a bean and asked a worker how he could tell that it was a good one. It's the color, the man said, launching into a lengthy lesson on the biochemical properties of coffee beans. "The sweetness comes from the sun," the man said. "We aim for a perfect water content of 10.5%." Wolfowitz listened intently and turned to an aide, impressed. "He's very exact," Wolfowitz said. Wolfowitz...
...might imagine, the biggest downside of the single-use camcorder is video quality. It's not painful by any means, but it blurs in comparison to today's $600 digital camcorders. The picture is no sharper than that of a VHS tape. The good news is that both the color reproduction and white balance seem to be better, and in good lighting it captured action very nicely. In any event, my low expectations were met and bested...