Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what was courageous in Rio is short-sighted now. Regulations like the Endangered Species Act similarly pose a conflict between environment and economy, and Bush has rightly pointed out the absurdity of saying to American businesses, "You can't build a factory here because we're protecting the grass." What Bush fails to realize, however, is that not all environmental regulations conflict with business interests...
...Coalition to Stop the Question 4 Tax, a grass roots organization that acts as a base for other Massachusetts groups, contests that Question 4 is simply a new $35 million excise tax and a "badly drafted and deceptive piece of legislation...
Step aside, Ross, Neil has his own grass roots organization...
...conservation ethic. In the past, natural forces shaped the environment. Now, unless a new round of volcanism erupts worldwide or a comet courses in from outer space, human activities will govern the destiny of earth's ecosystems. It may soon be within human power to produce the republics of grass and insects that writer Jonathan Schell believed would be the barren legacy of nuclear war. If humanity fails to seek an accord with nature, population control may be imposed involuntarily by the environment itself. Is there room for optimism? Yes, but only if one can imagine the people...
...research enterprise, are monuments to special-interest advocacy. Polio vaccines grew out of pivotal research funded primarily by the March of Dimes. But as the organizations grew, under the leadership of professional lobbyists and fund raisers, they opened themselves to the charge that they had lost touch with their grass roots and become a part of the system they were supposed to be influencing...