Word: droving
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bigger issues are at stake too, ones that are more political and philosophical in nature: Should any bank be too big to fail? What should be done with financial activities that seem purely speculative and of questionable social use? How can the short-term, get-rich-quick mentality that drove so much market activity before the crash - and inflated those bonuses - be curbed? Is there a place for morality in the world of finance? (See the financial crisis after one year...
Both of these goals came on cross-field passes. On the first, Annie Matthews drove down the left side of the field, drew Harvard goalie Cynthia Tassopoulos, and passed to Sarah Hasson, who flicked...
...Perhaps to dramatize the television blackout in metropolitan Detroit, a Free Press reporter drove some 160 miles across the state to Grand Rapids to live-blog the game from a chicken-wing restaurant. At a dinner party the night of the game, word of the Lions' win sparked mixed reactions. "Say what?" one woman asked upon hearing the news. Another dinner attendee, retired auto executive Mark Reynolds, compared the Lions to the New York Mets of 1969 - the year the Mets eschewed their status as one of professional baseball's worst-performing teams by winning the World Series. "They...
...from the windscreen. Despite this distancing, the relationship to the complete subject is not lost, but is in fact amplified. Ortega chose the Volkswagen Beetle because it is the quintessential Mexican car. Produced natively, it is the vehicle of choice for taxis, as well as the artist, who once drove the same model himself. Taken apart, the Beetle is not diminished but transformed from a functional vehicle into a creative masterpiece that forces us to simultaneously observe the world around us on both a micro and macro scale. This desire to explore the relationship between objects and ourselves is reflected...
...consumption preference makes sense. Right now where I am, locally grown apples are coming up. Peach season just ended. I enjoy eating that stuff. But the environmental argument doesn't hold up. I watched a documentary about Portland, Ore., and in it there was a woman who drove her minivan 25 miles to a local farm to buy a few days' worth of produce. So that's a 50-mile round trip for maybe 10 lb. of groceries. Whatever sense of environmental sainthood she felt was vastly outweighed by the energy of using an entire minivan to collect...