Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passage this year. It is going to be an extraordinarily difficult task, notwithstanding the fact that there is broad grass-roots support for the concept generally. There is extremely strong opposition with respect to the specifics. Number one, you are dealing with people's pocketbooks. Number two, you are talking about a very complicated overhaul of the tax system. And number three, you have distinctly different interests to meet in the House and Senate. (Nonetheless,) 1985, we have said, is our best shot...
...yard. But after a few minutes, a College official will direct you to take you game over to Tercentenary Theater. Does Harvard, as the Handbook says, want you to refrain from playing, "boisterous games in the yard," or does the University prefer that you trample on the grass in the area where Commencement will be held...
Some CLS critics say radical legal scholars are self-serving intellectuals who retreat into academics, thereby disassociating themselves from grass-roots social movements Kennedy again disagrees, saying CLS professors are, for example, integrally involved in the divestment movement at Harvard, and have in general had close ties to student protest movements. He also points to CLS-leaning professors and students who provide legal services to the poor through the Law School's clinical program...
...time 10,000 men and women of Harvard come to spill drinks and stomp all over the Yard. Viriemaire and his crew will have distributed hundreds of pounds of grass seed on the Yard in an effort to pre-empt the damage. And after the alumni have wreaked their havoc, Facilties Maintenance will return and distribute some 80 pounds of fertilizer...
According to Viriemaire, keeping the Yard and other University lawns green means fighting all the "enemies of grass"--everything from the thousands of people who walk through the yard every day to the local...