Word: dan
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...investigating consumer concerns, and an employee plans to visit the region to study the issue. Environmentalists say mulch made from pine straw or pine bark can be an effective alternative. "Cutting down cypress forests to make mulch is like melting down the Liberty Bell to make paper clips," says Dan Favre, campaign organizer for the Gulf Restoration Network. "A national treasure is being destroyed to make a disposable product...
...attention, and not just on cross-country flights. Save for the occasional terrorist or sheik stereotype, the pop-culture profile of this growing group had been almost nil. You might know that F. Murray Abraham or Danny Thomas had Middle Eastern ancestry, but it was trivia, like knowing that Dan Aykroyd was Canadian. There was no figure whose ethnicity deeply informed his or her work--no Arab-American Dick Gregory or Iranian-American Lenny Bruce...
...thing of the past. Without the ability to browse, a reader becomes passive in his selection, dependent upon personal recommendations or the bestseller list to determine his next choice. Since recommendations are often way off the mark, and the bestseller list is perpetually infested with trade romances and Dan Brown potboilers, the online shopper is stranded with an ever-diminishing pool of options. Until recently, the reader was unable to judge a writer’s style when shopping online. The New York Times recognizes the importance of actually reading a chunk of the text and has been running first...
...Vice Presidents: Richard Nixon tossed Spiro Agnew for Gerald Ford in 1973, Ford tossed Nelson Rockefeller and tapped Bob Dole as a running mate in the 1976 campaign, and Bush's father George Herbert Walker Bush let his top aides try to give the heave-ho to Vice President Dan Quayle when he was dragging down the G.O.P. ticket by three or four points...
...buzzer-beater had given Hartford a 49-47 win over Stony Brook in the first round. He fouled out with 1:37 left and walked off the court in a Hawk uniform for the last time to a standing ovation from the entire crowd and proceeded to hug coach Dan Leibovitz and the rest of his team.“I won’t quit at all for nothing,” Taylor said afterwards. “Don’t care if I had five fouls, I still would have played.”As great...