Word: lawns
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...rebellion brewing. Just as the wobbling economy of the past year made conspicuous consumption a little less conspicuous, it also gave parents an excuse to do what they have wanted to do anyway: say no to the $140 sneakers, fire the gardener, have junior mow the lawn. The Wall Street Journal calls it the Kid Recession: overall consumer spending rose slightly last year, but it dropped about a third among 8- to 24-year-olds. The Journal cited a November survey that found that 12% of kids said their allowance had been cut in recent months, while 16% received fewer...
With some justification, Loder feels he is being unjustly branded a villain. Hydrologists say a lined lake generally loses less water from evaporation than a lawn of comparable size, since grass consumes soil water while losing moisture through its blades--meaning the more than 100 golf courses in the area deserve equal scrutiny. "The lake looks wasteful," Loder says, "but it uses half the water a date grove would use, and I've attracted high-end buyers whose money feeds the local economy." Loder's completed project could add more than $1 million in property taxes, so supporters contend...
ARMY WORMS Previously a problem in the South and Midwest, this summer they've infested the Northeast big time. They'll eat your lawn...
...memorable sequence starts out with, "I like mowing the lawn." Several panels go by with just "RRRR" as he pushes the mower. Then just as suddenly for us as for him, a thought: "I see now that I create my own unhappiness." A dog looks at us through the front window. "The things that happen to me aren't in themselves good or bad..." The dog leaves. "It's the way I react to them that makes them good or bad..." A moment of astonishing clarity for a boy and for book, told in the simplest context, where it stands...
...bustle of the rushing crowds don't phase her. "You become peaceful and tranquil inside," says NuNez. Steven Reani does his exercises early morning near a deserted shopping mall in the capital, except on weekends when he, along with dozens of other practitioners, heads to the vast green lawn of the city's Mall...