Word: quieter
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...late 1990s, Florida farmers sent an undercover video crew to Mexico to document sanitary and pesticide violations and child labor. The expose became known on Capitol Hill as the "Mexican death tape." But today several activists have grown quieter, charging that grocery chains are retaliating by canceling orders. "The markup is so outrageous, they don't want anyone messing with it," says a tomato grower. Luis Rodriguez, a consultant for Florida Farmers Inc., an advocacy group, says he listened in on a conversation in which a Wal-Mart official told a supplier that he planned to stop buying from farmers...
...always been this way. Our culture thrives on sensationalism, on grotesqueness and intrigue. Teen idols and school shootings captivate far more easily than stories of increased volunteerism among young people or displays of exemplary leadership. The implicit message is clear: Money, fame or quick glory may turn heads, but quieter excellence simply doesn’t entertain...
...huge, jasmine-scented, marble-floored lobby of the Venetian resort in Las Vegas is almost always abuzz with activity. As in most Vegas hotels, guests traipse to their suites through a bustling casino. To the right of the long check-in desk, though, a quieter enclave awaits. There, in a hallway accented with deep cherrywood and mirrored walls, three elevators whisk guests to a more intimate check-in area on the 10th floor of the resort's newest addition: the $275 million, 12-story Venezia hotel tower, opened last June and billed as "an oasis of tranquility." As incongruous...
...years later, Phillips discovered a way to make a quieter and immeasurably greater impact on politics. He and his brother Dean founded a company committed to an analogous task: unearthing and assembling hidden but public information--voter rolls, driver's licenses, census data--for use by activists and politicians. Information and connectivity fuel democracy, Phillips reasoned, so the more that people have of each, the easier participation becomes...
...then his course veered. Prevented by an unexpected illness from covering the 1974 conflict in Cyprus, Carlson found himself freelancing and taking quieter domestic assignments over the decades—at a bureau of TV Guide or at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, which went out of business while he was writing for it. Through much of the 1990s Carlson covered endurance sports for publications like Triathlete magazine...