Word: mined
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...time you hold this magazine in your hands, I will be holding something else in mine: a very serious problem. I will no longer be part of Fifteen Minutes. Or, at the very most, if I’m lucky, I’ll graduate from FM co-chair to FM legend. But everybody knows most legends are either actually or effectively dead...
Without a key to a multi-million-dollar mansion on Mt. Auburn Street, it can be difficult to find a community at Harvard. FM is mine. I love this magazine if nothing else because it loves me back. Sometimes the relationship is shaky. I have mixed feelings about the times I made fun of freshmen, about the times I boldly bragged about being “quite the practiced masturbator” by the age of nine. I think this magazine sometimes takes life too lightly, over-analyzes too earnestly, mocks too mercilessly, and prints pictures of casual sex acts...
...problems faced by societies and corporations are undeniably converging. Investing in the former is often equivalent to securing the future of the latter. As GBC's Neilsen puts it, "Global issues have become the business of business." The question for companies and activists alike is how best to mine the opportunity...
...risks are paying off--at least financially. The black-and-white quasi-biopic Good Night, and Good Luck cost a modest $7 million and has earned $18 million at the box office to date. But North Country, the story of a single mother whose barbaric treatment in a Minnesota mine leads to the first sexual-harassment class action in the country, has been a commercial disappointment, so far recouping just half its $35 million budget...
...Mining is chaotic and safety enforcement isn't in place." WEN JIABAO, Chinese Premier, after an explosion at a mine in northeastern China on Nov. 27 killed 170 workers. This week, as many as 100 died in a separate incident...