Word: shifted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...This shift in dietary preferences and agricultural trends has created investment opportunities in supermarket, food-manufacturing and logistics companies in a number of developing countries. Consider China and India, the world's two most populous nations. Food spending in China is expected to grow 6.7% annually over the next 20 years, making the country one of the world's fastest-growing food markets, according to the McKinsey Quarterly. And in India, urban shoppers are spending more on food, groceries and personal-care items than ever before; the average monthly expenditure on these purchases jumped 14% in 2005 from 2004. According...
...elites, meaning groups like the Centers for Disease Control or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or the American Medical Association," says Dr. William Dietz, CDC's director of the division of nutrition and physical activities. "But in the last year there's been a real important shift...
...promising as each of these actions may be, they remain only fragmentary, half-steps in the face of what Wootan calls Congress' "shameful" refusal to enact strong, uniform standards. What is needed is nothing short of a dietary paradigm shift...
...Kanshi Ram, 72, activist member of India's caste of Dalits-or untouchables-who in 1984 helped organize millions of the country's disenfranchised by founding the Bahujan Samaj Party, which became the most powerful lower-caste political party in India; in New Delhi. Credited with spurring a radical shift in the perception of lower castes, Ram battled the upper-caste Brahmins and even criticized modern India's founding father, Mahatma Gandhi-revered for his advocacy of civil rights-for not doing enough to challenge the rigid social system...
...hues, although the difference in reaction between whites and blacks is subtly striking. The African Americans tend to be fairly reserved--quiet pride, knowing nods and be-careful-now looks. The white people, by contrast, are out of control. A nurse named Greta, just off a 12-hour shift, tentatively reaches out to touch the Senator's sleeve. "Oh, my God! Oh, my God! I just touched a future President! I can't believe it!" She is literally shaking with delight--her voice is quivering--as she asks Obama for an autograph and then...