Yet the biggest enemy of fiscal responsibility is California's political culture.

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"Compaction is the biggest enemy of lawn grass, " said Reeves, a retired horticultural agent of the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service, who now hosts radio and television shows about lawn and garden interests.

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Hysteria and confusion are the biggest enemy.

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However, the biggest challenge to Sun's dominance may come not from the old enemy in Redmond, but from Linux, a free operating system that is a product of the open-source movement.

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