15 Now to Starbucks's CEO: Pay Your Employees $15 an Hour! On Saturday, April 12, New York City workers and 15 Now (15now.org) activists gathered on the Fulton Mall in Brooklyn to participate in a national day of action against Starbucks Corporation.
ascent - an upward slope or grade (as in a road); the car couldn't make it up the rise. acclivity, climb, upgrade, raise, rise. incline, slope, side - an elevated geological formation; he climbed the steep slope; the house was built on the side of a mountain.
upâ¢start. 1. a person who has risen suddenly from a humble position to wealth, power, or importance, esp. one who is presumptuous or arrogant; parvenu. 2. being, resembling, or characteristic of an upstart. 3. to spring into existence or into view. 4. to start up; spring up, as to one's feet. 5. to cause to start up.