Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest guns. The Chamber of Commerce will soon announce the formation of a sprawling new coalition called the Center on the 21st Century Workplace. The center will start by publishing economic studies in support of corporate and government downsizing but then will quickly throw money into a grass-roots effort to downsize the Democrats on Capitol Hill. "Unions have the money and the motivation," the Chamber's Bruce Josten says. "Now the business community is going to get more aggressive in return...
...Critics denounce incentives as welfare for private enterprise that isn't paying off. "This is an issue whose time has come because too many giveaways are gnawing away at the tax base of our communities," says Jim Benn, executive director of the Federation for Industrial Retention and Renewal, a grass-roots research group in Chicago. "Teachers and firemen are being laid off, and homeowners and small businesses are getting stuck with even more of the burden...
Blomberg says he is delighted that many "grass-roots" Christians are willing to take the Gospels' picture of Jesus totally on faith, but points out, "The problem is that other world views and religions make the same claims as we do. To defend your view in the marketplace of religious ideas, you have to be able to give reasons for why you believe the Bible's claims about itself...
...boom is giving way to backlash. In a state-by-state slugfest, grass-roots groups are battling the gambling industry in ballot referendums, court suits and local legislatures. In Louisiana the public outcry over a bribery scandal involving video poker and the bankruptcy of a planned $800 million casino in New Orleans prompted the Governor to convene the legislature in special session this week to consider an outright ban on both types of games. Last week Kansas and Maryland legislators defeated measures to allow slots at racetracks and off-track betting parlors. In the past three months nine states have...
...January '94, Paulson asked Mott to take on the then disappointing Cigar. Though bred for the turf, he behaved like a speed horse, so after four more unsuccessful races on the grass, the trainer decided to try him on dirt. Bingo. Cigar closed out the '94 season with two victories. But even then Mott wasn't aware of what he had. When Cigar and his jockey, Jerry Bailey, won the first of their 10 races together in '95, Mott and his family were vacationing in Costa Rica...