Word: seeding
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...fact, this fashion fairy tale began 11 years ago, when Mellon, 39, then an accessories editor at British Vogue, spotted the potential of an East London shoemaker. With seed capital in the form of a £150,00 ($307,000) loan from her father Tommy Yeardye, who made his fortune with Vidal Sassoon hair products, she set about turning Jimmy Choo into a global brand...
...McCanns, of course, initially helped whip up public interest in the disappearance. After Madeleine first went missing, they launched a massive media campaign that was endorsed by celebrities - billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson this week started a McCann defense fund with around $200,000 of seed money - and they even got a meeting with the Pope. The YouGov poll indicated that some of the anti-McCann sentiment in the U.K. is a negative response to their self-generated publicity...
...Open earlier this year, with a website that has registered more hits than that of the previous tennis bombshell, Maria Sharapova of Russia. Jelena Jankovic, 22, is headed for a quarterfinals match with Venus Williams on Wednesday night at the U.S. Open in New York. Meanwhile, Djokovic, the third seed at the Open, just behind Federer and Nadal and ahead of Roddick, made it into the quarterfinals on Tuesday night after a hard-fought four setter against the Argentine Juan Monaco. In a country where football and basketball have long held pride of place, hundreds of thousands tuned into late...
...Some years ago, while studying first-hand accounts of NDEs, Nelson read the story of a woman whom medical staff had written off as dead and whose attempts to protest were thwarted by paralysis. Paralysis? As happens in REM intrusion! The seed of a new theory - that there was a link between REM and NDEs - grew in Nelson's mind...
This is what soybean farmers call the "seed-filling" period. It is perhaps the most critical time for crops to receive moisture. Without it, experts say the seeds abort or don't grow to their potential size. Walt Fehr, a professor of agronomy at Iowa State University in Ames, says, "The majority of soybean crops in Iowa will benefit significantly from this rain...