Word: grass
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Twenty miles southwest of Scottsbluff, Jim Wyatt, 41, who has already stripped his fields of everything but baked, brown grass, is hoping he can find enough scrub weed in neighbors' pastures to feed his cattle. Others have sold entire herds for pennies a pound. "If you can't feed them, you can't keep them," says Wyatt. Dry-land farmers, who either can't afford the expensive irrigation water or live too far out to be able to use it, are in even worse shape...
...construction, which included workers working two shifts to complete everything within the thirteen week summer, was completed just in time for move-in—although the Quad’s former grass lawn is still covered with construction vehicles and piles of dirt...
Pforzheimer Superintendant Jim F. Gallivan said the grass currently covered by gravel should be restored by the end of September...
...When you’re in that situation, which is rare, it really forces you to take a good look at where you are,” Murphy said. “The natural tendency for all of us is to think that the grass is always greener. When it’s hypothetical, it’s always greener. When you have to make a decision, you start to be very appreciative of what you have...
...been a bad year to be Bud. Selig's annus horribilis began immediately following last year's World Series, when he announced plans to eliminate several teams even as the newly-crowned Diamondbacks were still unlacing their grass-stained shoes. Then, midway through the 2002 season, Selig made the disastrous decision to call the All-Star Game, which was tied in the 11th inning, because both teams had run out of pitchers. He was booed in Milwaukee, where he was once a hero (for recruiting the Brewers away from Seattle). Fans were outraged, call-in radio shows were...