Word: greenes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cuted-up version of the 2006 BBC series Planet Earth. Mixing and milking the week's two do-gooder events - Earth Day and Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day - Disney fashioned its own Take Your Kid to a Movie Called Earth Day and harvested a very green $4 million on its Wednesday opening. That 24-hr. gesture must have exhausted American moviegoers' impulse to save the planet, for in the next four days, including the weekend, Earth didn't come near the daily $4 million mark. It will conclude the Friday-to-Sunday session with $8.6 million...
...endearing opening tune. The audience is greeted by García Bernal’s character, Tato, crooning a Spanish cover of Cheap Trick’s “I Want You to Want Me,” complete with an accordion and cowboy outfit against a karaoke green screen. “I read through the script, and I came to a point that [Tato] wasn’t working,” Cuarón said. The script went through multiple revisions to give Tato a more comical desire to use soccer to fuel his fantasies...
...shrine in Baghdad killed another 60 and injured 125 more. The bombs went off as people gathered for Friday prayers at the mosque and tomb where the prominent Shi'a saint Imam Mousa al-Kazim is buried. Last weekend, a pair of mortars or rockets slammed into the Green Zone, the first such attack since mid-January. The number of murders across Iraq that appear related to insurgent violence has also risen over the past few weeks...
...Newsom's wine shop eventually sprouted 15 separate businesses and made him a millionaire. In 1996, then Mayor Willie Brown appointed Newsom to the city's parking and traffic commission and later the board of supervisors. Newsom ran for mayor in 2003, narrowly beating out a Green Party candidate in a runoff. (Newsom was re-elected in 2007 with 73% of the vote...
...homeless population by cutting welfare payments in exchange for services, including housing - universal health care, championing a program that has insured nearly 40,000 uninsured San Franciscans, funded in part, by fees paid by employers - the environment, banning plastic bags in the city, endorsing the Kyoto Protocol and luring "green" companies to relocate to San Francisco