Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When her project moved to television, the target changed. Parker said surveys showed the TV audience to be "older people" with a different view of college and "grass roots, midwestern demographically," who would enjoy watching a girl struggle to cope with eastern values and the Eastern Establishment. Harvard became the setting again...
...Rexburg, Idaho, though eager to lend a hand in Utah, have been told by church officials that they are not yet needed. Says Elder Robert E. Wells, an executive administrator in the church: "We're always organized for emergencies. We have a tight-knit ecclesiastical order from the grass roots...
...past two years, however, Martin moved from the indoor basketball confines to the green grass of lacrosse. "Carole [Kleinfelder] had asked me to come out a few times," Martin says of her former basketball coach and current lacrosse coach. "It seemed like a fast game...
...CARPET treatment has, indeed an air of unreality. The campus and Square have been pulled into ship-shape like some last-minute dress rehearsal. Fences and scaffolds have disappeared, "green miracle" grass has been rolled or sprayed over barren wastes. "All that grass, just so people can sit on it," one current junior marvelled Even the expensive poster kiosks were stripped of their characteristic artwork and painted black...
Meanwhile, the tense and polarized public debate over arms control strategy continues. One side-typified by the grass-roots nuclear-freeze movement-argues that a sudden halt to development and production of nuclear weapons by both superpowers will markedly reduce the possibility of global nuclear war. The other side, led by the Reagan Administration, champions "deep cuts" in the nuclear arsenals as the basis for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks between Washington and Moscow. But it argues that a substantial further U.S. buildup is necessary to make the Soviets accept reductions...