• Courses usually have to shut down for two to three weeks to let the new grass grow in, which hurts green-fee revenues.

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  • The prairie had to be covered in new spring grass to feed and support your team of oxen.

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  • The new game, which ships July 12 for PS3 and Xbox 360 (no PS2 game for the first time), has added a new collision system, new defensive maneuvers, and new visuals like 3D grass and fog (for those night games).

    FORBES: Connect

  • They claimed sheep were being used to trim the grass of the new Wembley.

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  • What started out as a gimmick to entertain fans during breaks in the action has become an ultra-important component for major- and minor-league sports teams looking to market at the grass roots by nabbing new fans at increasingly earlier ages.

    FORBES: America's Top Sports Mascots

  • But he is keen to update its traditional grass-roots activism with new methods.

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  • In New Hampshire Ovide Lamontagne, a hardline grass-roots favourite, came within a whisker of defeating Kelly Ayotte, the more mainstream candidate, in the Republican primary for Senate.

    ECONOMIST: Primary elections

  • With Windows CE, " says Michalski, "I don't see a lot of grass-roots software or cool new stuff.

    CNN: Mobile computers: The more, the merrier

  • Whether we're tackling the Green agenda and leading the world on that, or whether we're looking at our - rebalancing our foreign policy: I want to see new policies debated throughout the Party, the grass-roots listened to, and that's why as a Deputy Leader candidate I'm gathering more support, it's quite clear that this is going to be a very, very close race.

    BBC: INTERVIEW WITH: PETER HAIN

  • For the new sod, the club paid for strips of grass that were 4 feet wide and 60 feet long to reduce the number of seams, even though it was the most costly.

    NPR: McIlroy Enters Next Phase Of Season

  • Recreational cycling was already on a roll, when in 2009 a 50 million New Zealand dollar government fund was established to create a continuous touring route running the length of the country, supported at a grass roots level by an additional 50 million New Zealand dollars offered up by councils and local organisations.

    BBC: Easy riding on New Zealand��s new cycle trail

  • The American has slipped out of the top 30 in the world rankings after an injury-ravaged campaign, but losing to Roger-Vasselin, ranked 67th, on the grass he regards as his favourite surface is a new low.

    CNN: Top seed Murray crashes out at Queen's

  • Every year, there is a lot of talk about firmer ground beneath the grass at Wimbledon, truer bounces, slower tennis balls and new string technology that aids in hitting topspin.

    WSJ: Wimbledon 2012: Roger Federer's Wimbledon Bluff

  • Groups of New Orleanians have organised themselves into volunteer militias tackling everything from home repairs to grass-cutting in the parks.

    ECONOMIST: New Orleans is recovering its energy, but not its people

  • The latter property includes a grass tennis court, formal gardens that a former horticulturalist of the New York Botanical Gardens maintains, a carriage house, two greenhouses, a 75-foot-long heated pool with a hot tub, a pool house and an apple orchard.

    WSJ: A Greenwich House Aims to Sell for $190 Million

  • "It used to be very hard to find enough grazing land here in Greenland because grass just didn't grow here, " Frederiksen said while inspecting the new lambs.

    CNN: Farming to the fore as Greenland ice thaws

  • It was a fitting finale to the journey: Turkey's eastern border, perhaps to be Europe's new eastern frontier, ancient churches and mosques rising like tombstones out of the long wild grass.

    BBC: NEWS | Europe | Turkish journey: End of the road

  • Grass roots tennis will also see a boost in funding and Flushing Meadows in New York, which hosts the competition, will also be revamped, with a new Louis Armstrong Stadium and Grandstand.

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  • "Today we're here to announce an unprecedented commitment from media to business, to health care industry, to grass roots organizations, all over our nation, to inform families of these new health insurance options, " Clinton said at a White House event Tuesday.

    CNN: Clinton kicks off campaign to insure children under Medicaid

  • Like those clever landscape architects who place bricks based on worn footpaths through the grass, we have examined how visitors have traveled through our website and made some new roads, as well as sprucing up the view a bit.

    FORBES: Strategy and the Brand Website

  • They put in new windows, redid the electrical systems and replaced the wood chips in front of the house with grass.

    WSJ: A Lakefront Cabin: All Quiet Except for the Singing

  • In a bid for party unity, the Democrats elected a new party secretary Saturday, choosing former left-wing union leader, Guglielmo Epifani in hopes of reinvigorating grass-root support.

    NPR: Pro-Berlusconi Rally In Italy Draws Cheers, Jeers

  • "During his toast he started talking about New Zealand traditions, which got me worried that he and my brother were about to throw on their grass skirts, " she says.

    CNN: Weddings blend cultures as well as families

  • Gore repeatedly denied he has any plans to run again, but this week a group of grass-roots Democrats calling themselves "Draft Gore" took out a full-page ad in The New York Times in a bid to change his mind.

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