Word: ran
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Marks, for example, ran a computer dealership as an undergraduate and spent much of his time "on the road, visiting clients, working with computer manufacturers and organizing contractors...
Senior forward Naomi Miller registered two goals and one assist on the weekend, including the game-winner against George Mason. Junior midfielder Ashley Berman and sophomore midfielder Meredith Stewart each tallied a goal and an assist as the Crimson ran its unbeaten streak to eight games...
...made from old-growth wood. The environmentalists threaten to follow up with newspaper ads, frequent pickets and civil disobedience at selected stores around the U.S.--unless the company agrees. "Home Depot is the biggest old-growth retailer in the world," says Randall Hayes, president of the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), a leader of the campaign. "Stopping them from selling old growth is the most important thing we can do to save these ancient cathedral forests and these 2,000-year-old trees." Only 22% of the world's old-growth forests remain intact, mostly in Brazil, Canada and Russia...
Persuading Home Depot would provide critical mass for a campaign that has been building momentum for more than a year. A score of major U.S. companies have agreed to limit or halt their use of old-growth products under pressure from the San Francisco-based RAN, the Washington-based American Lands Alliance and other environmental groups. Mitsubishi Motors and Mitsubishi Electric agreed last February to use only tree-free products by 2002. Kimberly-Clark scaled back its use of rain forest-wood fiber after the organization published ads depicting ancient forests over the headline OLDEST LIVING THINGS ON EARTH...
Home Depot is the biggest target yet for RAN, which has a staff of 25 and a budget of $2 million. But Suzanne Apple, Home Depot's community-affairs director, says the activists are expecting too much, too fast. "We are committed to the environment," she says. "We have been encouraging our vendors to tell us the source of their lumber. But we have 5,000 suppliers and over 50,000 products. It doesn't happen overnight." Surely not. But if it happens at all, asserts the combative Hayes, it will be because Home Depot and other companies get "smacked...