Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's first significant political triumph since he took office, and it stemmed largely from the emotional groundswell of admiration generated by his cool and courageous conduct after the assassination attempt. Reagan, however, cited grass-roots pressure from the voters as the key to his success. Said he: "For years the American people have been asking that the Federal Government put its house in order. Today the people have been heard...
...MEETING AT TELGTE by Günter Grass...
...before, at a marathon session of the Central Committee, the party leadership had shown that it is out of step with its East bloc allies in far more fundamental ways. Party Boss Stanislaw Kania sought throughout the 19-hour session to satisfy the demands of his party's grass-roots reformers without openly challenging the Kremlin. In his own 90-minute speech, for example, he was careful to stress Poland's unshakable loyalty to the Soviet bloc. Ultimately, however, he seemed to come down clearly, and boldly, on the side of further democratization. Promising to "continue the line...
...Grass-roots opposition to the Reagan budget cuts and tax changes remains surprisingly muted, but the lawmakers discovered during the recess that it clearly is growing. Whether it poses any real threat to eventual enactment of the President's full program will not become clear until congress gets down to work on it in the coming weeks. As political partisans, the congressmen tended to hear what they wanted to hear, of course. They were reminded often that the stakes are high in the current economic debate, for their parties as well as for the nation. Predicted Republican Congressman...
...Louis' physical deterioration is the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project, built by the Federal Government in the mid-1950s at a cost of $21.5 million. The high-rise complex was dynamited by the city in the early 1970s after becoming a cesspool of crime and decay. Today, buffalo grass has reclaimed the 55-acre site...