Word: movements
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recognition that the Hummer has to change its image if it wants a future in the U.S., where the public has soured on gas guzzlers, and in China, where gas-mileage standards are high and are expected to increase. "They see that great weakness in the vehicle and the movement in China toward more fuel efficiency," says Bonnell. "We know they have to address that if they want people...
...seems to have shifted from politics to infotainment - the terrain on these issues has shifted subtly in the past few years. (Indeed, gay marriage - once the hottest of hot buttons - seems to be easing toward public acceptance, as state after state approves it.) (See pictures of the gay-rights movement...
...George Tiller was a mass murderer," said the antiabortion extremist Randall Terry after the doctor was murdered in the lobby of his church. But Terry was an outlier. Most of the pro-life movement reacted with appropriate horror - and the talking heads who had exploited the Tiller situation, like Bill O'Reilly, were subdued for a change...
...they appreciate having two such prominent lawyers on their side, gay-rights veterans worry that Olson and Boies' approach could backfire. Now is no time to test the federal judiciary - where conservatives hold sway - on the issue of gay marriage, they argue. (See pictures of the gay-rights movement, from Stonewall to Prop...
...Aviv's city planners sought an egalitarian architectural style in sync with the socialistic winds sweeping through Europe. They turned to Bauhaus. Founded in Weimar in 1919, the International or Bauhaus style rejected the monumental wedding cakes, dripping with decoration, that prevailed in late 19th century architecture. The movement's leaders - Walter Gropius followed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - sought a new holy grail in design: the unity of form and function, expressed in ways that were modern, simple and sparse...