Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With spring upon us, Harvardians have taken to romping around the Yard carefree. Many, unfortunately, have encountered not just dew on the grass...
...grass hasn't turned green yet on Ohiri Field, but the Harvard men's lacrosse team has already begun to tear...
...come Saturday, the grass might be greener and the weather might be warmer...
...sidewalk. No, it is enough that front doors all along the strip are wide open in January, with just a little breeze (and a lot of money) coming across the threshold. Also that midnight is more brightly lit than midday back home, and that there is green grass, even if only in patches. "We have to wait nine months for green grass," says Jack Verbonich, who lives 30 miles outside Hibbing, in Makinen, Minn...
...Congressmen became more independent of committee chairmen and party chieftains, they have tended to listen more to the folks back home. Predictably, however, lobbyists have skillfully found ways to manipulate so- called grass-roots support. Direct-mail outfits, armed with computer banks that are stocked with targeting groups, can create "instant constituencies" for special-interest bills. To repeal a 1982 provision requiring tax withholding on dividends and interest, the small banks and thrifts hired a mass-mailing firm to launch a letter-writing campaign that flooded congressional offices with some 22 million pieces of mail. The bankers' scare tactics were...