Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Society lost faith that there were solutions," says Paul Grogan, president of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a source of funds and faith for grass-roots rescue efforts. A poll by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion shows that 75% of Americans believe the homeless problem will worsen or remain the same. The irony is that the loss of hope has occurred just when hope may be at hand. In city after city, advocates of the homeless can point to programs and policies that are tailor-made, cost effective, time tested. Now if adequate funds are provided, they will know...
Sobchak's troubles illustrate what has gone wrong with the grass-roots revolution last March that swept Communists out of power in industrial centers across the U.S.S.R. He took office eager to press ahead with plans to create a free economic zone in Leningrad that would attract Western capital. But the mayor's initial enthusiasm has been tempered by bruising battles with an unruly city council and entrenched bureaucrats, who are unwilling to let go of the real levers of power...
...national malaise: clever enough to advance through the mediocrities of the party, honest enough to recognize the need for change. He believes Gorbachev has already achieved greatness by creating a civil society in a country where political passivity and dictatorship had always been the norm. Informal organizations at the grass roots and the emerging institutions of parliament, independent courts and a free press will eventually lead to a multiparty system. "I cannot imagine a new Stalinist dictatorship," Smith says. He can imagine, with equanimity, a Soviet Union that reorganizes itself after spinning off the Baltic states, Georgia, Moldavia and other...
Although it is impossible to assess the troop strength of this grass-roots movement, it is significant enough to spark a backlash. Recently Oprah Winfrey, no slouch of a trend barometer, featured "self-help addicts" on her TV show. Some reconsideration is coming from movement leaders, like Anne Wilson Schaef, author of When Society Becomes an Addict and Co-Dependence: Misunderstood, Mistreated. She now calls the term outdated and argues that it should be modernized with a new concept of relationship -- sex, love or romance -- addiction. Social psychologist and therapist Stanton Peele, author of Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment...
Many parents of soldiers have no experience with grass-roots protest -- but they are learning quickly. What is most wrenching for them is the fear that their dissent might somehow suggest a betrayal of their children. "It scares me to think my son might be very angry if he thought I was not totally in support, in admiration and love for all the men and women in the service over there," says Leona Murray, who attends weekly vigils in Hyannis, Mass., while her 19-year-old son, infantryman Jay Coull, patrols in Saudi Arabia. "I certainly am not protesting their...