Word: grasses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Outside the Obama home, calves are grazing on the thick green grass that grows here in one of Kenya's most fertile regions. Plowed fields stand ready to be sown with maize. And scrawny chickens peck for grubs in the shade of mango trees. Inside, Granny Sarah's simple sitting room is plastered with black-and-white photographs of Obama Senior - the stepson she raised as her own - alongside Obama Junior's campaign posters...
With the arrival of February, rain has settled in for its months-long tyranny over Cambridge. In curbside puddles and swaths of viscous mud where grass once grew, it will assert its hegemony over our springtime world, aggravating harried pedestrians and turning landscapers’ jobs Sisyphean. The familiarity of the phenomenon makes it no less intolerable—ineluctable and universal, the spring rains dampen life in both senses of the term...
...influence of money in politics. He initially voted against the Bush tax cuts, which he now supports, saying at the time that they "mostly benefit the wealthy." To this day, he does not favor an absolute repeal of the estate tax. Despite a full-blown rebellion in the Republican grass roots, he remains committed to providing a path to citizenship for most illegal immigrants...
...transformation within the party extends from the grass-roots level right up to the Cabinet. In Tory parliamentary selection committees, the seats are no longer filled with local grandees but with insurance agents, housewives, teachers, salesmen. These party activists tend to pick candidates from among their own kind. The new Tory politician tends to be a self-made, middle-manager type with more stomach for the rough-and-tumble of pavement politics than his or her predecessors. Thatcher, too, has apparently found the old school ties a bit too binding: her Cabinet no longer contains a Tory blueblood. The last...
Boston, which scored a 22.7 on Popular Science’s 30-point scale, was commended for its proposed plan to build a plant that will turn leaves and grass into electricity...