Word: fairing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...drop in Chinese stocks, the Dow dropped 416 points last Tuesday, the largest single-day drop in over five years. In one day $632 billion dollars in value was erased from the U.S. stock market. News of the precipitous drop dominated cable news and newspaper coverage. It would be fair to guess that searches leading to news sites would focus on the market correction, perhaps the growing unease in Iran or perhaps the pending collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market. To the contrary, news searches last week were completely dominated by one individual: Antonella Barba...
Critics of cage-free eggs argue that the costs are unjustified. Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) is already cash-strapped, unable to extend dining hall hours or to routinely offer fair-trade bananas. Annenberg hall uses eightgallons of eggs a day; better, critics argue, to address dining essentials before paying to switch to costlier eggs...
...Akpan appeared unflappable throughout the performance, a rookie among pros, launching shots with abandon. Only a stirring rendition of the national anthem, he says now, and the presence of FIFA’s distinctive yellow “fair play” flags, reminded him of the grandiose nature of the event...
Take, for example, a consumer who is already committed to global redistributive justice: he will undoubtedly buy fair trade products—in addition to voting for leftist candidates and donating to Oxfam. Such purchases are a natural extension of his beliefs. Purveyors of eco-products do not need to convince...
...distinct scent of pork that permeates the UC’s lack of initiative. According to one UC representative, paying $1,700 for two months’ worth of newspapers for an entire campus, “just took money away from student groups.” Fair enough. Moments after voting down the newspaper initiative, however, the UC approved grants for similar amounts to individual student groups, whose combined impact for the undergraduate population is certain to be less than a stack of free newspapers in dining halls each morning...