Word: turf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Problems like that are almost expected in any new building," Scott Anderson, assistant director of athletics, says. Anderson recalls that some department officials were apprehensive about the facility originally because they questioned the feasibility of the astro-turf surface. "That worked out," says Anderson, "and that fact really overshadows any minor problems there might have been...
Unlike their counterparts in exotic parts of the world, contrast archaeologists stay on their home turf to study and recorder sites that will be hurt or destroyed by development projects. They usually work just ahead of the backhoes. Since the mid-1970s, when preservation legislation required archaeology on sites funded by the federal or state governments, universities with public archaeology institutes were hired by Federal and or state agencies, engineering and architectural firms, preservation-minded private developers, towns and cities public works departments etc., to conduct research on areas that will be destroyed by highways, sewers housing projects, and utilities...
...committee chose the Stadium because it is one of few fields in a major metropolitan area satisfying the requirements of the Federation International de Football Association, soccer's governing body. Most stadium fields are not wide enough for soccer, have artificial turf or an inadequate seating capacity to host the games, or host baseball teams with schedules that would conflict with the games...
Reich argues that those countries have become much more suited than the United States for this sort of high volume, standardized industry (read: organized labor's turf). They have access to lower priced labor and in some cases more natural resources. Therefore, if market forces act as market forces are wont to do, the U.S. will be priced out. Soon, the scenario goes, U.S. imports will increase and production jobs will dwindle mortally devastating an already weakened economy...
...Northwestern squad that will grace the Stadium turf today will feature four freshmen and seven sophomores. "We certainly won't have the experience factor in our favor," Timchal says. In fact, five Northwestern starters are playing lacrosse for the first time this year...