Word: grassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tuesday's elections gave us America's first elected black Governor, Doug Wilder of Virginia. That event, along with an analysis of the progress blacks have made in other contests, and Lance Morrow's account of his return to the grass roots of Prince Edward County, was our cover story until Thursday afternoon. But then came the stunning announcement that East Germans be allowed to travel through the Berlin Wall and would be granted freer elections as well. Bonn bureau chief Jim Jackson called me to urge that we change the cover, but my fellow editors and I hardly needed...
...long stretch of grass between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument is teeming with demonstrators who have come from universities across the country to demand that the politicians listen...
...members of the panel--sponsored jointly by the Kennedy School, the International Tusk Fund and the Energy and Environmental Policy Center--said the most effective method of protecting elephants is to involve communities at a grass-roots level...
...national elections approached, the ruling Sandinistas faced a unique prospect for a Marxist regime: the chance of winning a new term in office through open and honest balloting. President Daniel Ortega Saavedra had been nominated for re-election in a splashy party convention, and he launched a surprisingly effective grass- roots campaign, while opposition candidate Violeta Barrios de Chamorro got off to a pathetic start. Best of all, the 10,000-man army of insurgent contras, deprived of U.S. military support, was skulking in Honduras under a regional peace accord ordering them to disband in early December...
...million-member United Methodist Church, ecclesiastical legislatures have wrestled with several cases involving gay clergy. Though some national church agencies have advocated toleration of gay clergy, grass- roots conservatives have fended off any such policy change. The latest round of the 17-year battle involves a committee that is re-examining the church's approach to homosexuality. The Presbyterian Church too is restudying sexuality, raising the prospect that its stand against gay behavior could be changed...