Word: grass
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...little is likely to be done inside the Beltway - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chairwoman Sheila Bair is still pushing for a homeowner-relief plan - local leaders are looking for makeshift solutions at the grass roots. One notion is to let cities use NSP money to leverage lenders into helping more borrowers avoid foreclosure. Since lender banks naturally want foreclosed properties taken off their hands in the NSP buyout - and since reckless and even predatory lending was so often at play in the subprime mess - perhaps they in return ought to be required to show some level of commitment to homeowner...
Appalled at the popularity of so-called designer vaginas, a grass-roots organization called the New View Campaign staged its first-ever protest on Monday outside New York City's Manhattan Center for Vaginal Surgery. Two dozen women - ranging in age from teenagers to, ahem, sexagenarians - handed out index cards and held up orange poster boards with the message "No Two Alike," while two members of the group donned giant cloth vulva costumes. New View, which was created in 2000 in response to the introduction of Viagra, is trying to fight what it calls "the medicalization of sex," the idea...
...sharp words Huckabee has for his fellow Republicans, score-settling is not the major thrust of the book, Huckabee's sixth. Rather, Huckabee, who now hosts a weekend show on Fox News, spends most of the pages celebrating the grass-roots success of his surprisingly successful campaign and laying out, again, his vision for the future of the Republican Party, which includes instituting a national sales tax to replace the income tax and renewed focus on health-care prevention and education. He mentions McCain only in passing, and with praise, calling him a "true statesman and a man of honor...
...Wall Street corruption and plutocratic greed makes current class-based grumbling look decidedly mild. Wilson managed to survive the political storm and win re-election by forging a judicious path between laissez-faire and socialism. What's more, he did it in an era when "socialism" was a genuine grass-roots movement rather than an empty political charge...
...Dems' volunteer office in Cottonwood is an example of how far grass-roots Democrats have come, virtually on their own. McCain likes to say that his ranch is in Sedona, a liberal bastion that sent an Obama delegate to the Democratic National Convention and will more than likely go for Obama on Election Day. But his homestead is actually in a little town 8 miles from Sedona called Cornville, in Yavapai County. Until recently, it was hard to imagine Yavapai, an old blue collar farming and mill town that used to supply the nearby copper mines, ever voting...