Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such heavy-handed tactics serve only to strengthen Yeltsin's grass-roots support. In Perm and Chelyabinsk well-dressed local officials listened skeptically as Yeltsin addressed them. Outside the halls, however, large crowds carrying pro-Yeltsin banners and waving the white, blue and red Russian national flag cheered and applauded as Yeltsin's voice boomed from the loudspeakers. "I believe in the rebirth of Russia," Yeltsin said again and again. "How is it possible that in a country of 150 million people with such talent, such a huge territory, such rich resources, people should live so poorly?" Shouted a burly...
...dismal U.S. retailing industry, home-improvement centers that sell everything from kitchen cabinets to grass seed have been a notable bright spot. Spurred by the spreading do-it-yourself itch, sales at the sprawling emporiums grew more than 10% a year in the 1980s, while retailing in general grew only about 6%. Even the stormy economy has held a silver lining for some companies, since people tend to fix up their homes rather than buy new ones during a downturn...
...that end, San Diego has a grass-roots political organization with 5,000 dues-paying members that calls itself Prevent Los Angelization Now! It is collecting signatures for a ballot initiative to impose a comprehensive "managed growth" plan on San Diego's city government. On the strength of polls showing that as many as 80% of voters favor slower growth, organizer Peter Navarro, a public-policy professor at the University of California at Irvine, believes that a new political alliance is forming that confounds old party lines...
Rauch, who emphasized the importance of a "grass-roots council," said he stood for a modest political agenda with a strong commitment to student services...
ENVIRONMENT Those sprays keep the grass green, but at what price...