Word: grown
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Long before they ever met each other, these two were kindred spirits. Scorsese's films spoke with a tone that Ebert had never heard before, and Ebert was Scorsese's champion well before the director became a household name. As the two have grown old and famous together, this back-and-forth has become a compelling - perhaps even defining - dialogue in their careers. "We have never become close friends. It is best that way," Ebert writes in his introduction. "We talk whenever he has a new film coming out, or at tributes, industry events, or film festivals. We have dinner...
...graders can buy a Harvard sweatshirt at the Coop and in T stations all over Boston, but there is something degrading about Harvard selling its name to a lingerie company. All we need now is for Starbucks to sell an exotic blend of coffee ground from beans that were grown deep within the Harvard Forest. If little hearts and dogs in every shade of pink don’t undermine the sanctity of the Harvard name, I don’t know what else would. It’s both disturbing and sad to know that somewhere in Arkansas...
...estimate of what is missing is based on simple arithmetic and market economics. The world consumes a steady 4,500 tons or so of opium a year, almost all of which comes from poppies grown in Afghanistan, where the crop earns about $1 billion a year for farmers, by U.N. estimates. Yet Afghan farmers have harvested far above world demand in recent years; last year's harvest was a record 8,200 tons and this year's crop dipped only slightly to about 7,700 tons, in part because the global food crisis sent the price of wheat rocketing, persuading...
...then Obama turned McCain's attacks back on him. The way out of this ditch, Obama argued, is by rewarding drive and innovation - and by making sure that businesses look out for workers and play by the rules. "That's how we've always grown the American economy - from the bottom up," Obama said. "John McCain calls this socialism. I call it opportunity, and there is nothing more American than that." And the crowd raised the steel roof of the Mellon Arena...
...situation since the riots in March, analysts and academics say. Younger and more radical forces among the some 100,000-strong exile community in India have increasingly called for a tougher stance against Beijing, particularly as reports of alleged further abuse, including arrests and shootings of demonstrating monks, have grown...