Word: grass
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...statehouse triumphs was set in 1996, when organizations like the conservative National Right to Life Committee realized that no partial-birth bill was likely to get through Congress that year. The group set about drafting model bills for the states and providing information to affiliates nationwide. At the grass-roots level, activists organized prayer vigils and phone banks to persuade state legislators. The strategy has worked. Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the NRLC, believes the push has changed the nature of the abortion debate. "The question is now determining what are the parameters...
Panelists discussed how to invigorate the suffering economy from the grass roots up, with the help of local entrepreneurs, and working to circulate money and knowledge within the community...
...fact, panelist Upshaw, director of 2nd Gear Bicycles--a shop where teenagers can learn how to repair bikes and work for 30 hours to earn one of their own--represented such grass-roots efforts...
Afterwards, about 150 people sat on the grass and crowded beside Jarvis Field for an open-microphone discussion held by Lambda, the Law School's gay and lesbian students' association...
Ever since the wily serpent urged Eve to take that fateful bite out of the apple, snakes have been on just about everybody's enemies list. In the Old West, calling someone a "rattlesnake" or "snake in the grass" could get you shot. Even newborn monkeys recoil instantly when shown the image of a snake. Is there anyone who has something good to say about the creatures...