Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even talk to one another. They watch the countryside pass, content. We are surprised, with them and most riders, that they do not want to know where we're from. Why are they not curious about us, the Americans here to save them? At their house, a bent-over salmon-colored ranch on a brown-dirt street, they ask us if we'd like to come in for a cold drink. We decline, must move. They scoot out. In the process, the daughter's shoe catches on the seat and loses its heel. She looks up, embarrassed, horrified. "New shoes...
...perks of working at Broadview. Most days, analysts prefer to grab fast food lunches or order in to their desks--the world of the two-martini lunch is long gone. But twice a week, the company caters a meal for all its employees. And it's a good one: salmon filets, roasted asparagus, rice and potatoes, with cheesecake for dessert. The staff gathers around black tables in the conference room, and for half an hour the office feels like a dining hall. Cliques form in different corners--secretaries over here, a small group of partners towards the back...
...rivers are cleaned up, dams removed, pollutants flushed away, salmon are returning to waters everywhere from California to Germany, where no salmon had been caught since...
...should remember that the price of fixing our neglect--of paying every worker at Harvard a living wage of at least $10--is about ten million dollars a year, hardly an insurmountable hurdle for our well-oiled fund raising machine. For many of us, this means the difference between salmon and chicken, open bar and cash bar, at alumni appreciation dinners. For workers, however, it might very well mean the difference between poverty and lives of genuine decency. Alumni ought to be mindful of this while celebrating our successes this weekend. More than that, however, we should seize this opportunity...
...dams were just something we had to get done," Chouinard continues. "In a few years, all the salmon will be gone. As for the 1% we give away, we do get complaints because the groups we help are often radical, like Earth First! But we're committed to give to groups working with causes, not symptoms...