Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great extent, the bureaucratization of the date rape question has also defanged the grass-roots campus debate and exhausted its momentum...
...clubs not to work together as the election neared, even if only one pursued "action". As a good Democrat, however, I am encouraged to see that the complete disorganization and disruption evidenced by Pat Buchanan's speech at the Republican National Convention last year has extended down to the grass roots. And I highly recommend all future HRAC meetings as an excellent source of an hour's entertainment...
...appearance and meetings with business executives and legislators. The pace will pick up sharply this week: immediately after the speech to Congress, Cabinet members will fan out to radio and TV shows to plug the program, and some will be dispatched to their home state to begin grass-roots lobbying...
...groups that were previously suppressed and excluded not only from academic discourse, but from mainstream America in general. They were part of a larger grassroots movement that produced civil rights for African Americans and women. The movement for Latino and Asian American studies at Harvard, by contrast, is not grass roots but top-down, spearheaded almost entirely by the officials of campus ethnic organizations and confined to closed meetings between stodgy administrators and frustrated student activists...
...secluded sunlit space at his six-acre compound on Long Island, New York. His shaggy black yakling of a dog, Tess of the Baskervilles, is sitting at his feet, and he is stretching out his long, strikingly lean -- somewhat cranelike -- legs into the sun, picking up clumps of grass as he talks, and now and then turning off the tape recorder with a desultory toe. Already this week he's been to Idaho and Colorado to attend a conference on freedom of speech and the American novel. He's enjoyed a "very nice evening" with Salman Rushdie and turned...