Word: mainstreaming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fresh garden-mint chocolates while relaxing to live piano music on weekends. At Moonstruck Chocolate Café in Beaverton, Ore., patrons attuned to the nuances of flavor order several pieces of chocolate with varying percentages of cacao beans. While the confections and connoisseurship may be less rarefied at the more mainstream shops, they too encourage customers to linger. At Ethel's, which promotes itself as "a place to chocolate and chitchat," patrons can chew the butterfat over the chocolate trivia cards planted at a few tables...
...gone, is, How will the court rebalance? Six of the eight current Justices plus O'Connor were appointed by Republican Presidents, yet that court has restricted use of the death penalty and affirmed-- while narrowing--abortion rights, church-state separation and affirmative action. "O'Connor was accurately described as mainstream conservative in 1981," says a lawyer who has known Roberts for 20 years. "John is reasonably described as mainstream conservative today. That's not because they are the same. It's because mainstream conservatives are a little more conservative today than they were then...
That is the dangerous denial from which mainstream Muslims need to emerge. While our spokesmen assure us that Islam is an innocent bystander in today's terrorism, those who commit terrorist acts often tell us otherwise. Mohammed Atta, ringleader of the Sept. 11 hijackers, left behind a note asserting that "it is enough for us to know that the Koran's verses are the words of the Creator of the Earth and all the planets." Atta highlighted the Koran's description of heaven. In 2004 the executioners of Nick Berg, an American contractor in Iraq, alluded on tape...
...technology has gained popularity in the last year by enabling internet users to track updates to their favorite weblogs. Mainstream media, including ABC and CNN, have followed by adding their own RSS feeds...
...basic set of uses right now is subscribing to newsfeeds and podcasts, which are files embedded in news feeds,†Palfrey said. Podcasting is primarily the transmission of mainstream radio shows and grassroots audio blogs using RSS feeds...