Word: grassed
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...year: the author, a fine watercolor artist, follows a little Zimbabwean girl as she wakes up at dawn and walks miles through forests and grasslands to her school. Small children can have fun finding Manyoni's tiny figure in a grove of fig trees or waist-deep in riverside grass; older kids can learn to spot the civet cat, the yellow hornbill and the impalas, kudus and wildebeests she passes. The exceptional illustrations treat the vast African landscape with awe and love. Beautifully redrawn cave paintings, based on work by prehistoric artists who saw much the same landscape -- a rhinoceros...
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Henry G. Cisneros told a crowd of about 250 yesterday that community change can only come about through a marriage of government and grass roots initiatives...
Does Bakersfield P.D. have a future? The show is probably too gentle and unassertive to inspire the sort of grass-roots campaign that saved or extended shows like Brooklyn Bridge and Cagney & Lacey. Levin thinks the subject matter makes it a tough sell. "Nobody wants to see ineffective cops," he theorizes. "In the days of Car 54, Where Are You? people didn't have to lock their doors or their car. Today there's violence and fear and crime everywhere, and nobody wants to see a cop who can't make a decision." Maybe not, but who says every show...
...royalty paid to the U.S. on net production. Oil, gas and coal leases on federal land require a 12.5% gross royalty, but hard-rock mining pays nothing to the U.S., and a suitability review is an airy dream. Which is why mining-industry money has watered the grass roots of pro-development "wise use" groups such as People for the West. And why David Rovig, until recently president of Crown Butte, the outfit that has Yellowstone in its sights, solicited $1,000 contributions for Rahall's 1992 election opponent. Rahall won, but there is no certainty that his mining reform...
...learned everything there is to know outside in the grass with the squirrels and the pigeons," she says...