Word: grassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second time around, Harvard ran an option play to the left, and quarterback Tim Perry pitched out to the trailing running back. Bianchi snuck between the two, intercepted the pitchout and found only open green grass on the other side of the field...
...first half was a sluggish one for the Crimson. After playing their last four games on artificial turf, Harvard had trouble adjusting to the slower grass field. The squad had no corners in the first half and few scoring opportunities...
...nationalist inroads are most pronounced in predominantly Muslim Azerbaijan. The Popular Front, formed by a group of intellectuals less than a year ago, was initially considered a fringe group by the local Communist leadership. But then the front began to stage stunning demonstrations of grass-roots support, including a rally in the capital of Baku that drew some 300,000 protesters and a crippling rail blockade of neighboring Armenia. Finally Azerbaijan's Communist leaders officially recognized the nationalist political organization, and acceded to virtually its entire agenda. In a special session of the republic's supreme soviet three weeks...
Just as environmentalism began as a local movement, it must continue to grow at the grass roots even as it gathers force in the chanceries and parliaments of the world. Individuals and nations alike must learn to think on a far broader scale about themselves, their needs and their interests or a global catastrophe will force them...
...defenders of pay equity say that grass roots movements have forced state legislatures to establish pay equity funds. Six states have already established equity programs, despite the courts' decisions...