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.
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.y means of ascent and descent consist simply in dilating or contracting the gas that is in the balloon by the application of different temperatures, and here is the method of obtaining that result.