Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of kindergarten criminology some of the current "three strikes" proposals represent? Part of the reason is that little serious thinking took place. "The President was moved by the Polly Klaas case," says White House domestic-policy assistant Bruce Reed. "He'd dealt with crime at the grass roots in Arkansas, but after meeting with the murdered girl's father in December he realized again that we have to do more to keep people like that off the streets." Yes but, says another Administration official. "Obviously the whole thing was poll driven. Even after ((Clinton)) met with Mr. Klaas...
...believe in the integrity, decency and ... good sense of grass-roots Americans...
Sachs: We blew it in the past two years, when there were reformers in key positions. We withheld aid without realizing that it could have given them tremendous tactical support. We should continue grass-roots programs like student exchanges and technical assistance. But the large-scale aid, which should have been given before, is now likely to be wasted...
...grass-roots female militancy is not something that a women's studies professor would judge p.c. In fact, it looks a lot like your standard conservative anticrime backlash, but with a key difference: crime in this case is defined as what men have been getting away with for centuries...
...long after both watched the obligatory orientation-week video on date rape. They agree on how their "relationship" started: he picked her out of the freshman "face book" and decided he wanted to date her; they chatted at a party, crossed paths around the campus and talked on the grass one night. She told him she had a boyfriend; he observed that no romance lasts forever...