Search Details

Word: planetful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...nothing could have prepared them for the shock they experienced last week when the world's largest producer of surfboard materials abruptly hung up its board. Without any advance warning, the Clark Foam factory-whose polyurethane foam ?blanks? fill more than 75 percent of all surfboards on the planet-shut its doors after 44 years in business, sending the industry into a market-driven panic. Within seconds, surfboard prices around the country skyrocketed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surfing's Sudden Wipeout | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

...itself, African Studies is a bona fide and coherent field of regional study akin to East Asian or Near Eastern Studies. As such, it is a weighty area of inquiry that sadly has not received adequate attention, especially since it addresses urgent issues currently affecting humanity and the planet...

Author: By Taro Tsuda | Title: Direction for Du Bois | 12/13/2005 | See Source »

...common goal, Magnus has received support from most of our execs, but John Voith is the candidate most familiar to California.” As Harvard is clearly not relocating to California any time soon, and neither Red Sox nor Yankee fans will ever be eliminated from the planet, the facebook group endorsements were symptomatic of a climate in which the UC campaign became a spectacle and the real issues were obscured...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Through the Mire | 12/13/2005 | See Source »

...anything gets the pugnacious founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor talking, it's the notion that corporations ought to exist for more than the pursuit of profit. In the simplest terms, that idea--called corporate social responsibility, or CSR--invites companies to consider their impact on people and the planet on a par with their traditional quest for profit. Rodgers considers that bunk. Not that he opposes conscientious corporate conduct or occasional acts of charity. He's quick to point out that he and his company do quite a bit of both. "What I do criticize," he grumbles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Smart at Being Good...Are Companies Better Off for It? | 12/12/2005 | See Source »

BETHLEHEM, Pa.—On Saturday afternoon, Kyle Neptune’s performance wasn’t of this planet...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lehigh Defense Clamps Down | 12/11/2005 | See Source »

Previous | 238 | 239 | 240 | 241 | 242 | 243 | 244 | 245 | 246 | 247 | 248 | 249 | 250 | 251 | 252 | 253 | 254 | 255 | 256 | 257 | 258 | Next