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More than 31,000 annuals, marigolds and petunias (the Olympic flower budget is $250,000), have been trucked in, along with several sycamores. Picnickers piped through the gates each day by a flutist watch the seamanship from blankets spread out on the grass. The civility of the place must be affecting, because though the French and their wounded oar finished last in the heat, the final was broadened to accommodate fairness and one extra craft. "From a sport point of view," the announcement said, it was the only thing to do. What a nice phrase...
Even the rehearsals had their heart-tugging moments. Day after wilting day in the Los Angeles Coliseum, during breaks in the strenuous practice of the opening ceremonies, a touching human exercise would take place. Tubas would be scattered across the grass like the wreck of a brassy train...
...October 1983, at the annual NOW meeting in Washington, the candidates again faced a women's group and were asked if they would consider having a woman in the No. 2 spot on the ticket. Across town that same week, grass-roots Democratic women passed a resolution calling for a woman nominee. Jeffrey remembers: "There was a commitment from an enormous group of feminists that if we ever believed a woman would hurt the ticket, then all bets were...
...News/New York Times poll of 747 voters taken immediately after the choice of Ferraro indicated less enthusiasm at the grass roots than among political activists. Majorities of both sexes?62% of men, 54% of women?gave the selection a blah, "all right" rating. But among men, only 13% were excited by the choice; 20% thought it a "bad idea." The margin among women was surprisingly small: 22% excited, 18% saying "bad idea." One possible clue to the results: 60% of all those polled thought Mondale had made his choice in response to pressure from women's groups, vs. only...
...cause of grass loss is an increase of sediment, which blocks the light that plants need in order to carry on photosynthesis. Another problem is the bay's excess of nitrogen and phosphorus. These nutrients "fertilize" the bay and promote the proliferation of algae. When algae decompose, they rob the water of its life-giving oxygen, killing the grasses and the creatures that depend on them. There are areas of the bay-submarine deserts-where nothing at all can live...