Word: shade
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Starbucks has shareholders to answer to when it comes to giving away profits. But Starbucks’ shareholders might actually support bigger donations, especially given their history of approving other socially responsible policies. Starbucks has led the industry with its efforts to promote Fair Trade Coffee and organic and shade grown coffee. Starbucks also generously gives even part-time employees health care, which is a big commitment given the rising costs of insurance...
...shade of an athletic center turned medical complex, Earl Brown, 56, waited for his brother who was looking a buy a house. Brown listened to a radio, the only thing he had snatched from a community center in New Orleans before being airlifted to the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport by helicopter. He tuned it to oldtime classics, to a man crooning “When I’m down and feeling sad, you always comfort...
...ordinary people." They are earnestly going about trying to "demythologize" themselves, as T Bone Burnett puts it, cutting themselves down to manageable size, the better to handle their superstar stature. It is a posture that is both defensive and pragmatic, disarming and perhaps just a shade desperate. "People respond to our naivete," Clayton insists. "I think they see four guys from Ireland who don't want to let go of their dreams...
Does this mean that Michelangelo did not retouch at all? Of course not. Nobody thinks that even Michelangelo could have got every passage of color and shade in the thousands of complex forms that make up the scheme of the Sistine right with the first layer of color on each. The Serpent coiled around the tree in the Temptation of Adam and Eve, for instance, far from being the more or less monochrome reptile of old, reveals the most delicate complexities of feathered stroking in green and yellow over reddish tones of shadow. The slow drying of the intonaco gave...
...question now is what impact the current surge in oil prices will have on the global economy's two great growth engines, China and the U.S. To a remarkable extent, the two economies have so far seemed bulletproof, absorbing the price hikes and steaming ahead. China grew at a shade under 9% last year and its oil consumption rose more than 15%. But due in part to its outmoded factories and lack of insulation in most buildings, China is a highly inefficient user of energy: to produce a dollar of GDP it burns two and a half times the energy...