Word: powderly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...market Barnett knows he must attract) would be proud to show on their shelves. Barnett had his San Francisco design firm's team discard two completed designs before deciding on a third, one he felt was the perfect science-meets-nature theme for every Shaklee line. The new dishwasher-powder label shows a stack of plates lined up next to leaf fronds; a tub of scouring paste depicts green leaves rising from a heavy-duty pan; the laundry stain soaker has not only the requisite plant material but a puppy too. "When you look at it, when you're sitting...
...design awards, but more important, it has won rave reviews from people like Oprah Winfrey, who showcased a number of environmentally friendly products on her Earth Day show. She waved toward the others, saying "You know, I haven't tried those products. But I have tried this [the dishwasher powder]. I use this now ... I love the packaging." Winfrey then raved about Shaklee's Basic H2, an improved, more concentrated version of the cleaner that Forrest Shaklee introduced in 1960. "It's amazing," she said. "You can clean the windows. You can clean the counters. You can clean the floors...
...that it's only for the likes of James Bond. Don't believe them. If you can get down a blue-groomed run without denting your ego, then there's a heli-ski run for you. Imagine avoiding those chairlift queues, and stepping off your chartered chopper onto untracked powder...
...these changes in no way affect the mandatory minimum sentences Congress set in the '80s for drug trafficking. Back then, crack cocaine was associated with inner-city violence and drug-addicted babies, while the powdered version of the drug was considered yuppie nose candy. Congress cracked down so hard on crack that users who get caught with five grams of the stuff - about five Sweet'N Low packets' worth - get a minimum of five years in prison, which is more than the statutory maximum for simple possession of any quantity of powder cocaine, heroin or any other controlled substance...
...revising its guidelines, the federal commission in some ways is simply catching up with the states. Amid almost universal criticism of the federal government's 100:1 ratio, only 13 states still make a legal distinction between crack and powder cocaine, and none of these states applies as harsh a ratio as 100:1. But according to Douglas Berman, a professor and sentencing expert at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law, prosecutors have an extraordinary amount of discretion in deciding whether a case gets tried in state or federal court. "Ironically," he says, "the more lenient a state...