Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Buchanan Grass Valley, Calif...
...fight, which occurred at a special Labor Party meeting held in London's Wembley Conference Center, was intense and bitter, but in the end it was a rout. By a margin of 54% to 46%, the conference of Members of Parliament, labor unions and grass-roots party organizers voted to strip M.P.s of their traditional right to elect their own leader. That responsibility will go in the future to a new electoral college in which the more militant unions and the radical local party organizers will hold 70% of the power against only 30% for the M.P.s. Party Leader...
...leadership of El Salvador's revolutionary left is a diverse, sometimes unlikely group, as varied in its personalities and ideologies as the alphabet soup of its political parties, grass-roots organizations and guerrilla armies. It is only within the past year that the leftists have tried to overcome their old antagonisms and unite under the umbrella of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) for a "final offensive" toward their common objective: the overthrow of the civilian-military junta and the installation of a revolutionary regime...
...lack of men, some Wellesley students believe that the introduction of men would sully the beauty and serenity of the campus. Women point to the expensive yards of Oriental carpeting in the living rooms, the numerous expensive grand pianos, and the acres upon acres of beautifully manicured green grass and gardens, and say that the natural roughness of men might destroy the prettiness of the setting...
...current stagnation prevents both the public and private sectors from assisting the poor they once did. While Muller is right to dismiss the voguish speculation on taxation and capital formation as irrelevant to future prosperity, he provides no radical response to pressing social problems. He advocates a decentralized, grass-roots reform of labor, corporations and government relationships. Muller outlines a program of cooperation between these economic actors that would eradicate the misallocation of resources, stemming from interest group haggling. His idea is intriguing, if utopian, but it still fails to address the issue of those who are represented neither...