Word: grassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this year on people who they believe are evading taxes in ways that inspire others. The taxmen are frankly concerned about the proliferation of anti-tax movements. The number of tax protests has nearly doubled in the past two years, and the IRS fears they will spread like crab grass if not swiftly curbed. So far this year the agency has taken legal steps to snuff out tax rebellions in Washington, Connecticut and Michigan...
...Frank Capra's 1946 movie It's a Wonderful Life, the actor played an embattled S and L officer who eventually triumphs over evildoers when depositors unite to save his business. The nation's 4,600 S and Ls could use a little of the Capra grass-roots rescue treatment right now. Along with their sister "thrifts," the 460 mutual savings S and L banks are caught in a profit squeeze that some analysts fear could lead to their collapse and ultimately to U.S. financial chaos. Says Jonathan Gray of New York's Sanford C. Bernstein...
...courtside boxes) were laid out behind a row of dainty lemon dahlias. Melbourne's Kooyong Stadium was transformed even further for the final match. Kooyong is Australia's Wimbledon, the most hallowed tennis ground under the Southern Cross. But Kooyong's center court is grass, and Borg refused .to play on that fast surface. So Promoter Paul Dainty shelled out another $48,000 to build a wooden platform and synthetic surface over the grass, allowing a five-inch airspace for the grass to "breathe...
Today, in most parts of the country, grass is de facto legal. It is virtually impossible for a college student to go through school without having partaken of or witnessed without reporting to the police some infraction of our marijuana statutes, and yet we hardly consider ourselves criminals. Gone are the days of paranoia, complete with burning incense to hide the smell of burning grass from the proctors and tutors. They're too busy smoking to turn...
...generation's drug of choice has occurred, our legal codes have been evolving at glacial speed to come to terms with the new mores. For most of us, lax enforcement of marijuana laws concerning small recreational amounts has induced an indifferent attitude towards the legalization and decriminalization of grass. It is only those for whom marijuana is a major aspect of their lives, the heavy users and dealers, who have organized, with the help of public-interest lawyers, into special-interest groups, comprising a lobby whose constituency is the nation's pot smokers...