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The gambling industry did everything in its power to stop the establishment of this commission two years ago, but Congress and a fervent grassroots anti-gambling group eventually foisted it on the industry.
Some, like Bill Kristol and George F. Will of ABC's This Week , think it genuinely tests a candidate's grassroots organizing ability.
PLoS was founded in October 2000 not as a publisher, but as a grassroots movement of researchers who believed that the results of the global research enterprise should be a freely available public resource.
But three nascent grassroots anti-gambling campaigns in the West could finally bring attention to the real issue in American gambling, which has nothing whatsoever to do with casinos or multimillion-dollar jackpots.
The Aug. 17 earthquake "sent tremors rippling through Turkey's political and social world, triggering a backlash against the traditional Turkish faith in an all-powerful state," reported Toronto's Globe and Mail . Although it is unlikely that the current government will be brought down by the crisis, the paper says it could lead to "the grassroots development of Turkey's fragile democracy.