Word: grass
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...people trade jobs each week--portrays the kind of working world we would live in if we all got the jobs we wanted when we were 7: a cheerleader swaps places with a cowgirl, a fire fighter with a DJ. But the episodes generally end on an amiable, grass-is-always-greener note, as when a surfer trades with a sitcom writer and concludes, "As a writer, I'd be sad knowing that there's a lot of cool stuff going on in the world, and I'm sitting there in a room telling jokes." Likewise, Showtime's quirky Family...
...began offering Fair Trade coffee after institutional clients--hospitals and universities--demanded it. Meanwhile, groups led by Domini Social Investments, which manages $1.8 billion, jolted P&G, the nation's biggest coffee company, with a shareholder resolution demanding that it consider Fair Trade. After protest rallies and a grass-roots campaign, P&G last September launched a Fair Trade line under its gourmet Millstone brand. So far, it is sold only by mail order, but P&G signed an agreement with activists to begin offering it in thousands of supermarkets. Says P&G spokeswoman Tonia Hyatt: "We have a goal...
...President Bush’s administration and expose its failed policies through witty and strategic media and theater campaigns. Launched during the 2000 presidential campaign as “Billionaires for Bush or Gore,” it uses a wily combination of satire and facts to communicate through grass-roots organizations and the Internet. The campaign aims to alert the public to the fact that Bush is, in fact, not the ordinary, down-to-earth guy he purports to be. Instead, they claim, he is a power-hungry, lobbyist-pleasing politician. Their intriguing tactics are reminiscent of Jonathan Swift...
...would treat it “like a laboratory.” He was also among the pioneering group of students who converted the old Adams House squash courts into an art exhibit—the space is now officially known as the Adams Art Space. His grass-roots organization to increase visibility for the arts on campus was eventually expanded into the yearly campus-wide celebration known as Arts First...
...confident that, at least for them, the grass is not greener elsewhere...