Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appropriations bill that would have distributed his police money that way. "I don't tell all these folks how to deploy the police," said Clinton, "or what they should do all day. All I say is there has to be a community-policing strategy because that's by definition grass-roots reform, and we know that it works...
...lobbyist to include nearly 10 times as many people than the 6,500 now registered. One loophole now closed: the contacts with executive branch officials and congressional aides now count. Reformers, though, point to what may emerge as a serious weakness: the law still allows fast-growing grass-roots lobbying, in which practitioners use databases to find thousands of sympathetic citizens to flood Congress with telephone calls and letters...
...Harvard students have long been able to make operational decisions about service programs, and such grass-roots initiative helps to keep the programs vital. The autonomy of student organizations in such decisions will be nurtured and respected in the future as in the past, to the extent permitted by basic concerns for the safety of all participants and sound financial practices...
Susan Power, a 1986 graduate of the Law School, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and author of the award-winning novel The Grass Dancers, read experts from her short story entitled "First Fruits" in honor of Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck 1665, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College...
...dream town of the 1990s doesn't need Walt's domes, skyscrapers or monorails. By offering good schools, clean streets and grass around the edges, Disney is creating a fantasy world so far removed from common experience that people are amazed at the prospect...