• Another outbreak of the weed caused extensive damage to a number of important wetland habitats, including Exminster Marshes in Devon, earlier in the year.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Cornwall | Battle to halt weed invasion

  • Agency experts believe the weed only appeared at Davidstow this summer but it has already occupied an area the size of a tennis court.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Cornwall | Battle to halt weed invasion

  • Zimbabwean tobacco growers watch in horror as big cigarette firms, worried that their supplies might vanish, help farmers in neighbouring countries to start growing the weed.

    ECONOMIST: Zimbabwe

  • Scientists are concerned about the spread of the "weed" in the Chitwan National Park because it has been a huge conservation success story, with nearly 100 breeding adult tigers and more than 400 rhinos roaming within its territory.

    BBC: Invasive species have a 'delayed legacy', says report

  • On nice summer days, me and a good friend of mine named Heather would walk the sprawling weed-free lawn holding hands, dressed to the nines in our JC Penny tour guide income finest, and strolled towards the Cliff Walk over looking the Atlantic.

    FORBES: Getting Over Our Over-Levered Selves

  • Justice Secretary Chris Grayling says judicial reviews are increasingly being sought for "PR purposes" and the proposed changes would weed out the "weak and frivolous" cases while still enabling genuine challenges.

    BBC: Ministers line up curbs on 'frivolous' judicial reviews

  • Despite becoming a wealthy and successful CEO who could easily afford to hire help, George Romney instilled this same work ethic in his kids by requiring them to mow the lawn, shovel snow, rake leaves, weed the garden, and clean the house.

    FORBES: Newt's Right: Put the Kids to Work

  • The 5% Duma barrier was designed to weed out the just-for-fun contenders, but even the bigger ones have mutated, merged and divided like bacteria, leaving the voter bewildered.

    ECONOMIST: The Russian elections

  • Although the South suffers from weed and mold spore allergies in the fall, Gerald Kress, an executive with SDI Health, which operates Pollen.com, says the North and Northeast gets hit particularly hard by ragweed -- and 2009 is shaping up to be a banner year for ragweed pollen.

    CNN: Southern deluge may help fall allergy sufferers

  • Like eliminating bugs from software programs, it takes time to weed the cranks out of the system -- and, in a fast-moving case like Boston, the cranks went viral, as all the false IDs and dead ends indicated.

    CNN: Should criminal investigations be crowdsourced?

  • Time after time, parents step up to make cookies for the bake sale, coach sports programs after school, weed and maintain the school grounds, put up bulletin boards, work the book fair and more.

    FORBES: Back to School: Volunteering Your Services

  • Employers, too, have sought help from these providers: as unemployment numbers rise, the number of applications received for each posted position increases, and it can be a full time job to simply weed through the submitted resumes looking for potential first-round interviewees.

    FORBES: The Job Search: A Little Help From Your Friends

  • As with any excise tax, the amount of revenue a weed tax could generate is a function of four big things: The tax rate, supply, demand, and price.

    FORBES: Dude, Would Legalizing And Taxing Weed Solve Our Budget Woes?

  • Paul Butler, a former federal prosecutor and now a law professor at George Washington University, says the greatest concern will be to weed out people who want to be on the jury of a notorious case.

    BBC: NEWS | Americas | Hunt for jury neutral on 9/11 plot

  • In calculating the 100-basis-point value, Weed assumed that losses generated by the loss-harvesting portfolio would mostly offset short-term gains elsewhere.

    FORBES: Fidelity's Giant Loss Harvesting Tax Dodge

  • But in border cities in the provinces of Limburg and North Brabant, there are local officials and residents who support the introduction of a weed pass.

    BBC: Dutch pot tourism ban hangs in the balance

  • Biometric identification is also helping counties to automatically weed through the fake, duplicate, and fraudulent entries with a speed and precision not before possible.

    FORBES: We Don't Need a National ID Card

  • But they say they are working hard to weed out the scofflaws, both from within the industry and with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which can only help its business overall.

    FORBES: The Infomercial Triumphant

  • And it can certainly be argued that a more competitive system could weed out the bad docs we might be forced to see by some HMO program looking to save money.

    FORBES: Would Free Market Medicine Really Work in America?

  • Hiring managers will be able to weed out the potential employees who applied for the job simply they saw it online from the ones who truly want to work for that specific organization.

    FORBES: The 10 Worst Pieces Of 'Good' Career Advice

  • Whereas interviews are notoriously unreliable predictors of on the job success, a valid and reliable test can objectively help hiring managers identify top talent or at least weed out the obvious misses.

    FORBES: Stop Rolling the Dice for C-Suite Hires

  • Karin Gilford, ABC's senior vice president of digital media, says an outside company has been hired to monitor the tweets that will appear on the Oscar site to weed out spam and offensive content.

    WSJ: Tweeting the Oscars: I'd Like to Thank My Twitter Followers

  • Based on established characteristics that define a good photograph, Google will weed out the bad shots, and highlight the good ones, and Google will use facial recognition to identify pictures that include your family and group them separately.

    FORBES: Google Is Very Creepy, And That's What Makes It So Awesome

  • Everywhere you looked, one of them seemed to be staring at nothing, drinking it in, transfixed: a dead stalk of dock weed or the blank corner of a stone wall or an icicle dribbled from the lip of a gutter.

    NEWYORKER: She��s the One

  • With Roundup-ready soybeans, for example, a grower only needs to apply Roundup herbicide during planting, while traditional soybean seeds require application during planting and again while the crop is growing in order to achieve the same level of weed control.

    FORBES: Commentary

  • The bill's chances improved further when Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed said she would allow the bill to move forward, despite her opposition to gay marriage.

    NPR: RI On Way To Be 10th State To Allow Gay Marriage

  • He said the three warning stages were a weed notice, a cultivation notice and finally a termination notice if no improvements were made after the first two requests.

    BBC: Overgrown allotment warnings issued by Brighton council

  • But Gov. Jay Inslee insists there are ways to prevent the bulk smuggling of the state's newest cash crop into the black market, including digitally tracking weed to ensure that it goes from where it is grown to the stores where it is sold.

    NPR: Wash. Vows To Try To Keep Weed In State _ But How?

  • The return of IPOs, put on hold as the market regulator tries to weed out weak candidates, could boost earnings at companies such as Citic Securities.

    WSJ: Asian Brokers Benefit From Rising Stock-Trading Volumes

  • "We take this moment to remind prosecutors and their staffs that the Racial Justice Act mentions the idea of training program, to help weed out racial bias as they exercise their broad discretion in capital cases, " said the Rev.

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