Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everything in England appeared true to form--the bell towers, the students in gowns bicycling to exams, the green pastures, the lush grass and, a very good sign, the sheep...
...Incoming callers are sorted to give priority to those from states with the earliest petition deadlines. An MCI service named Caller Profile helps assemble demographic data on the volunteers who call in. Perot refuses to disclose what he is spending on this let-your-fingers-do-the-walking grass-roots operation. But Paul Weichselbaum, MCI's Texas general manager, says it's "a highly unusual system" whose "cost is not trivial...
Cows are contributing to global warming. To a measurable extent, they are. The symbiotic bacteria that dwell in every cow's gut enable grazers to break down the cellulose in grass. As a by-product, these bacteria produce considerable amounts of methane, which, like carbon dioxide, is a heat-trapping greenhouse gas. The methane periodically gusts forth from grazing herds in the form of rumbling postprandial belches. But if cattle contribute to the global methane load, they are hardly alone. Swamps, termite mounds and rice paddies are all hosts to similar sorts of bacterial methane factories...
...Texan billionaire waters his grass-roots movement...
Tuition revenues usually go into general funds, which pay for everything from staff salaries to cutting the grass. To keep high-paying industries from plucking off promising science talent, universities must provide laboratories furnished with state-of-the-art equipment. To achieve prestige, many schools engage in bidding wars for big-name professors who command $100,000 salaries. Faculty salaries rose through the '80s to make up for lagging paychecks a decade earlier; benefits and health care also escalated...