• He notes that, like all grass-roots organizations, peer networks can be disrupted by fanatics, but self-correction mechanisms can usually overcome such glitches.

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  • Besides my wife and me we had two friends over, including a dyed in the wool Peter Luger enthusiast from pre-hipster Brooklyn, and we all tasted my own grass fed T-bone first.

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  • "You know, that's what grass-roots pressure is all about: Every day, thousands of people are calling Congress, saying, 'We want a public option, ' " he said.

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  • Among them: causes that support strong government, social movements and grass-roots action, all of which can be crucial to gaining results where they matter most.

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  • The Republican leadership, Harned wrote in a memo, asked the coalition to "write the definitive piece of paper trashing all these bills" and launch a grass-roots effort against them.

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  • "People who supported Governor Dean have been part of a movement all across America, and that was a grass-roots movement to change this country, " Edwards told reporters Saturday in Augusta.

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  • All the meats and meat dishes aboard come from grass-fed, sustainable livestock raised close to San Francisco.

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  • What is needed is a grass-roots movement similar to MADD that encompasses all aspects of society.

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  • Barbara Cassani, who is chairing the London bid, admits the All-England Tennis Club may not form part of the plans because grass would not be considered appropriate for disabled athletes, who will be competing in the Paralympics.

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  • All along the back of the house, broken mirror-glass lay glittering on the grass.

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  • Moya's defeat came after a hard-fought contest but Grosjean won only three games as he struggled to switch from the faster grass surface on which he reached the semi-finals at the All England Club earlier this month.

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  • The spread of the web had been amazing because it had happened not by a management decision or United Nations decree, but "through the grass roots efforts of thousands of people of all different sorts, collaborating - across the internet - just because they shared that same twinkle in the eye, " he said.

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  • Hanging there, waist-high on a wall, are a clutch of trophies and wreathes, all won for scything grass.

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  • The world number 60 had lost all four of his previous matches against Federer, including a 6-1 6-2 humbling on the grass of Halle two weeks ago.

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  • But this Saturday, we all later agreed, was the first day of summer: the smell of plowed fields and first-cut grass, the river flushed by rains, its banks covered with ferns and May apples and early wild flowers, dame's rocket and white trillium.

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  • Williams has enjoyed huge success at the All England Club in the past, having won five singles titles and four doubles crowns at the prestigious grass-court venue.

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  • Pineda, who missed all of last season after right shoulder surgery, parked his SUV Wednesday in a grass parking lot behind the left-field fence at the Yankees' minor league complex.

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