Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death is stoking a vigorous debate. "The River Phoenix image was pure," says New Yorker David Kleinhandler, 16. "But I guess he wasn't. He betrayed his image." Outside the Viper Room, one admirer left a painting: a blue stream surrounded by green grass and the message THE ETERNAL RIVER FLOWS...
...Proposition 174 debate was closer to a monologue conducted by the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association and other powerful teachers' unions. Parents and students are the consumers of education, not teachers, but parents lack the organization and means to take on those resisting reform without effective grass-roots mobilization. A referendum like Proposition 174 had too many gray areas to elicit much supportive enthusiasm. In fact, the voucher timetable had not even been clarified to the voters. With a more carefully designed school choice ballot, a silent majority of concerned parents would revolutionize one state's education...
When Norman and his neighbors joined forces, they also joined thousands of others across the country in a grass-roots movement that a few years ago seemed most unlikely: fighting major retailers trying to move into their neighborhoods. After years of passively accepting -- sometimes even welcoming -- the likes of Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Payless Drug Stores, K Mart and Price Club, residents are now protesting in the streets and hectoring at town planning meetings. They feel they are now wise to the disadvantages such stores bring: increased traffic, air pollution and cannibalization of their hometown retailers. Add modern media savvy...
...other experts, like Leonard Berry, director of Texas A&M's Center for Retailing Studies, believe victories by grass-roots groups like the coalition deprive residents of the opportunity to buy goods and services more cheaply, especially in urban areas like New York City and Los Angeles, which are monopolized by small, more expensive specialty retailers. "For towns to deny entry into the market is contrary to free enterprise," Berry says...
...while the grass-roots groups congratulate themselves and advise neighboring communities to follow suit, other citizens, like the 2,845 Greenfield residents who voted in favor of Wal-Mart, feel less euphoric. They had been looking forward to the economic boost the store could have provided. "The town of Greenfield could use the jobs," says Alfred Havens, president of the town council. Major retailers are big job generators in today's economy. Wal-Mart is the nation's second largest private employer after General Motors...