Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most of us," says Walter Morse, "have been too busy with our real jobs to do much." Morse is more than a bit player. He is the sheriff of Hillsborough, New Hampshire's most populous county. "The sheriffs are key," Dole told me last summer. "They're the major grass-roots force in the state." Unfortunately for Dole, the other sheriffs echo Morse. "We'll get the signs up," says Sheriff Wayne Vetter of Rockingham County. "But it's tough. Forbes should have peaked by now. He hasn...
Second, we can begin to make our strength felt where the politicians care most about it--at the grass-roots level. If we each agree to donate only an hour of our time volunteering for candidates of our choice, we will send the message to the power-brokers and deal-makers that they ignore us at their peril. The Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government has phone numbers for all campaigns and candidates, and the Youth Vote '96 conference on Feb. 16-18 sponsored by the IOP will help students join the push...
...people who aren't on the grassroots level are the people who already care about what's going on," says Debbie Adler, a first-year at Brandeis. "Grass-roots is how you can get to the people who can vote, but don't get to do it on a regular basis...
...blazed down upon the Quad for two beautifully warm days. The god's nose dripped and its coiffe sagged. It became Elvis again, then Lincoln in old age. On Friday it was an eight foot tall, five foot wide stump. By the weekend the putrid, freezer-burned grass emerged and all that was left of that magnificient thing was a perfectly circular patch of snow...
Horwath started with abdominal exercises to strengthen her weakened stomach and spine muscles using large rubber balls in the Harvard training room. Later, she was able to progress to running on grass and then on concrete...