Word: ores
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...president Jason Fried, 33, decided early on that he didn't need to be in the shiny valley of Silicon to make cool software. Half his team works out of a plain-vanilla Chicago office that 37signals shares with a design studio. The other four are scattered: Portland, Ore.; Chesapeake, Va.; Caldwell, Idaho; and New York City. This tiny crew, only three of whom graduated from college, has built software that many in the world of Web 2.0 consider the best for small-business collaboration. One of its development tools, Ruby on Rails, is the backbone for dozens of popular...
...groundbreaking study--which is being emulated in Boston, Chicago and Portland, Ore.--was full of surprises. Among them was the sheer size of New York's problem: 70,000 students from 16 to 21--more than one-fifth of the city's high school population--were two or more years behind their peers in accumulating the 44 credits needed for graduation. An additional 68,000 had already dropped out. All told, New York's 138,000 lost and vulnerable kids made up a population larger than the combined public high school enrollment of Philadelphia, Houston and Boston...
...protest culminated in a die-in, where the “denied prescription” was carried past the protestors, who fell to the ground, pretending to have died. Protests similar to the one in Worcester also took place yesterday in Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., Austin, Texas, Salem, Ore., Chapel Hill, N.C., and other cities throughout the country. —Staff writer Yelena S. Mironova can be reached at mironova@fas.harvard.edu...
...group of Nike marketing executives gathered in a fourth-floor conference room on the company's Beaverton, Ore., campus and looked into the future. On the whiteboard were the names of five possibilities for the company's next big sponsorship push. Two of them, the NFL and the NBA, were in sports where Nike was well established, but the other three represented worlds where Nike was all but unknown: the Brazilian soccer team, the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team and a teenage golfing phenom named Tiger Woods. Wall Street was waiting to see what Nike would do to follow...
Suzy Badaracco, TUALATIN, ORE...