Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the notable exception of the defense issue, there were signs at Brighton that a touch of grass-roots democracy was creeping into the party. The rank and file in unions and constituency parties boldly voted against their leaders' choices. Moreover, five extreme leftists were expelled from the party for their leading roles in a faction called the Trotskyist Militant Tendency. The conference also moved toward moderation in its stance on the European Community: whereas during the election campaign Labor had pledged to pull Britain out of the E.G., the conference voted to stay in for the full term...
...also a major propaganda coup for the I.R.A. The escape came after a wave of arrests and convictions during the past year (thanks to the testimony of several "supergrasses," or onetime terrorists turned informers) that has severely shaken the organization. The slang term to grass means to tip off policemen. Evidence from just one supergrass, Christopher Black, has led to 35 convictions, including that of Kevin Artt. Largely because of the informers, political murders in Northern Ireland have fallen dramatically, from 97 in 1982 to 47 so far this year. That sort of success led Ulster authorities to expect some...
Once again, Americans have decided that good public schools are essential for the public good. Parents, educators, business people and politicians everywhere are forming grass-roots coalitions to raise standards and improve the quality of instruction from kindergarten to senior year. Their vigor is bringing a new vitality to education, the institution that has been called America's secular religion. Says Terrel Bell, U.S. Secretary of Education: "There is currently in progress the greatest, most far-reaching and, I believe, the most promising reform and renewal of education we have seen since the turn of the century...
Chiang ascended the steps and went immediately to his mother's grave, a simple mound of grass-covered earth surrounded by a wall of brown sandstone, where he meditated for 20 minutes. He then turned, entered his retreat...
Houston produces new alliances and a drive for grass-roots power...