Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dirty secret was that the warring weekends shared much common ground. Said Jeffrey Eisenach, the head of the Progress and Freedom Foundation and one of this season's few conservatives at the Renaissance retreat: "On both sides of the ideological split there is a sense of groping for a new vision of where the country is going...
Most of the search must be conducted on the ground. Minivans are rented at the local airport, the backseats removed and replaced with electronic detectors that can sniff the neutrons and gamma radiation a nuclear device might emit. The vans, however, are only good for use in large open areas like parking lots and highways. To search narrow streets and buildings, as many as 100 two-person teams, dressed as inconspicuously as possible, are sent on foot patrols. One team member carries a special radiation detector designed to be hidden in briefcases, student backpacks, laptop computer bags--even beer coolers...
...they have discovered common ground in tort reform, and are working hard for three initiatives that have already qualified for California's March primary ballot. Proposition 200 would establish a "no-fault" auto-insurance system in which insurers pay benefits regardless of who causes an accident. Proposition 201 would discourage shareholder lawsuits by requiring unsuccessful litigants to pay the corporation's legal fees. And Proposition 202 would sharply limit lawyers' contingency fees in personal-injury cases that are settled within 60 days. The initiatives will be voted on separately, but their backers, in order to create a wider base...
...seems to be losing ground as well. Since Ireland became president in 1992, the number of NOW chapters has dropped from 800 to 600, as inactive groups were shut down. In California alone, membership has fallen from 39,758 in 1990 to 31,168 in mid-1995, which leads Bruce, for one, to question the 270,000 membership figure touted by the national office. "The organization has turned inward, and there is no new vision," says Marie Jose Ragab, president of Dulles NOW in Virginia...
...above all, an unsurpassed painter of light. He used the finest-ground colors, and he knew everything about glazing and underpainting. Those ultramarine blues, whites and lead-tin yellows make each image an epitome of a luminous world, a place not merely revealed by light but constructed by it. Even his darks shine. The late 17th century in Holland was an age of the eye: optics was a ruling scientific interest, and the telescope and microscope were opening tracts of nature that up till then had been below or beyond normal sight. As an aid to painting his View...