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.
(ÉËsÉnt) n. 1. the act of ascending; a rising or climbing movement. 2. movement upward from a lower to a higher state, degree, grade, or status; advancement. 3. a way or means of ascending; upward slope; acclivity. 4. the degree of inclination; gradient: a steep ascent. 5. a movement or return toward a source or beginning.