Word: turf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that hadn't dwindled into extinction--is a matter of much speculation, scientific and otherwise. Our species would end up the only one left standing, but whatever happened to the Neanderthals didn't happen quickly. Plentiful archaeological evidence proves that Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis inhabited the same general turf in many parts of Europe and the Middle East for thousands of years. That doesn't prove, however, that they lived as peaceable neighbors. Populations were so sparse that run-ins probably would have been rare...
...parent knows that few pleasures match the sight of a child who's flushed and beaming after a romp on a stretch of turf. Travel teams in particular can do much to melt away the inhibitions between parents and their teens. "On about the seventh hour of a road trip from western Pennsylvania," says lawyer Robert Luskin of Washington, "you tend to hear things you wouldn't otherwise...
...Senate, the House and President Clinton can get their collective act together. Democrats are squawking that the House version doesn?t do enough to help poor neighborhoods and minorities get the service they need from reluctant insurers; Clinton says the Senate version takes too much regulatory turf away from the Treasury Department. Now the negotiators take over ?- and Wall Street is salivating at the prospect of a deal. When Citigroup?s model of one-stop financial shopping becomes officially available to the rest of the corporate herd, get ready for a merger stampede; Merrill Lynch, Lehman...
...Turf gives the game much more speed," LaSovage said. "It will allow us to compete at the next level...
With a strong group of veterans and the new turf field, Harvard field hockey seems poised to break through to the next level of success...