Word: grass
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...name on Lay's White House list was that of Nora Brownell, a Pennsylvania utility regulator. Enron discovered her in 1997 when it was trying to break into the lucrative Pennsylvania electricity market. (That year Bush adviser Karl Rove recommended that Enron hire political strategist Ralph Reed to build grass-roots support in the state.) Lay also jumped into the Pennsylvania fray, urging Bush to call his friend Governor Tom Ridge on behalf of Enron. "I called George W. to kind of tell him what was going on," Lay explained to the New York Times. "And I said that...
...senators in our nation’s history, only 15 have been minorities,” said Donna Brazille, a grass-roots campaign manager for the Gore campaign. “No more crumbs, no more scraps, let’s get a bigger piece...
Eliminating the cyclotron is part of a larger overhaul Harvard is planning for science buildings around Oxford St. and Divinity Ave. The University promises the end result someday will be more research facilities, more grass and less asphalt...
...Reed didn't really need his help. Reed's choirboy looks notwithstanding, he was no neophyte trying to get into the business. By the time he stepped down as executive director of the Christian Coalition in April 1997, Reed, now 40, was considered such a shrewd political operator and grass-roots organizer that any number of FORTUNE 500 firms were knocking on his door...
...this land was made for you and me (and little Leaf). Somewhere in the same part of my brain that enjoys watching Snow White sing “Someday My Prince Will Come,” there was a fleeting desire to romp through calf-high wild grass and drink stream water, dressed, of course, in the trendiest, worn brown leather boots and soft pastel peasant...