But depending on where you live and whom you ask, lawn-care may well be causing ecological disaster.
Before joining the Colorado Stars, Schmitz tended bar, waited tables and ran a lawn-mowing business.
The maker of lawn-and-garden products highlighted strong increases in Texas and Florida, two key early-season markets.
He owned a lawn-mowing business and was a junior corporate executive before becoming a swim coach.
Servicemaster's cleaning and lawn-care book extended outside the U.S. and Canada to licensing arrangements with local operators in 25 other countries.
"They mow lawns, and now I can buy ETFs for them with their lawn-mowing money without paying a commission, " he says.
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The purpose was to "seed" the synthetic windpipe -- as you would seed a new lawn -- to grow on the structure.
Most turf grasses--the technical term for the plants that make up a typical suburban lawn--thrive in the cooler, wetter weather of the northeastern United States.
Janesville is a major distribution center for John Deere lawn-care products.
Neighbors use lawn-care guys the way the Redcoats used the Hessians.
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Now we're visible as pretty ordinary, lawn-mowing, PTA kind of people.
Individual examples can seem trivial new minimum prices for backpacks and prams in Argentina, for example, or new tariffs on lawn-mower-blades in South Africa but the cumulative impact is significant.
Scotts Miracle-Gro, an American lawn-care firm, recently announced that it is developing genetically engineered strains of grass that are pest-proof and that grow so slowly that they may require no mowing.
When there are a sufficient number of cells, scientists "seed" them -- much like you would seed a new lawn -- onto a mesh scaffold that is shaped like a urethra.
They became activists through practice, defending their property from illegal loggers the same way your dad would against drivers who clip his lawn -- by going out on the curb and yelling at them.
But lawn-care madness is not just a problem confined to the drought-prone western half of the U. S. Even on the East Coast, people over-water, over-weed and over-fertilize their lawns in an (inevitably) futile struggle to achieve a perfect, dandelion-free bit of green.
Restaurant and bar owners, lawn-service companies, and painting and drywall subcontractors are all often paid by customers with cash, which is often not reported on tax returns. (Unfortunately, some lawyers even transact business this way.) Understanding the type of business and how it is transacted is one key to investigating an unexplained increase in net worth.
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By the 17th century, the walls of the court were painted with a noisome cocktail of ox-blood, ox-gall, lamp black and a bucket of urine: soon afterwards, tennis became unfashionable and all but disappeared to be revived as a modified, open-air sport, in the wake of the invention of the lawn-mower, by Major Wingfield in the 1870s.
After reviewing data on how married couples in the U.S. tackle housework, as well as self-reports of how often they enjoyed intercourse, sociologists at the University of Washington (UW) say that couples who shared the burden of chores -- cooking, cleaning and caring for the lawn -- tend to have the least active sex lives.
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People might wonder when they see a black-tie dinner and what -- from everything I hear, what will be a lovely evening in the tent on the South Lawn -- what the role of having a party like that is, given that some people might say there is two wars and a lot of joblessness going on in the country.
The real question is the stakes, and the level of competition, and over a week at the All-England Lawn Tennis Club it was clear that a high-level field was playing for keeps.
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But rather than condemn their litigation--which just might be making stepladders and lawn mowers slightly safer--I would criticize lawyers for something else entirely, and that is their writing ability. (It's a fair assumption that lawyers are drafting those encyclopedic hazard warnings.) I propose that consumer product companies fire the lawyers who write safety warnings.
Plant your picnic blanket among the lunching office-workers on the Great Lawn, or swap people-watching for bird-watching along The Ramble, 37 cool acres of wooded paths and streams.
Lawn and golf-course grass will be tougher, trees more resistant to drought, or adapted to clean up contaminated soil.
We believe in building a cohesive society, where Britishness means inspiring people with a love of country, not bullying them with instructions to integrate, or insulting them with cheap 'flags-on-the-lawn' gimmicks.
's Concern brand is one of two dozen companies offering an alternative to Turf Builder in a lawn fertilizer weed-control product that is derived from corn (but kills weeds like crabgrass only as they germinate).
Pound for pound, the strongest girl in the world may be Naomi Kutin, a ten-year-old from Fair Lawn, New Jersey, who weighs only ninety-nine pounds but can squat and deadlift more than twice that much.
Obie walked out onto the front lawn under the two-hundred-year-old oak and stared.
In other countries, you would not dare to step on a well-cultivated lawn.
The Oslo peace accord, and the handshake between Yasser Arafat and Yitzak Rabin on the White House lawn, gained near-universal support.
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