Word: turfed
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...concerns of rising health care costs and competition placed on local community health centers by Boston’s many prestigious hospitals—forces companies to prove to state officials that their proposed facilities do not duplicate local services. Urban costs and overcrowding have made the suburbs prime turf for hospital expansion. “Many [community hospitals] can benefit from an appropriate relationship with teaching hospitals, as long as it doesn’t lead to development of redundant facilities,” said Donald J. Thieme, executive director of the Massachusetts Council of Community Hospitals, a trade...
...long season,” Harvard coach Ray Leone said. As the final minutes of regulation and overtime wore on, fatigue was palpable on both sides. It didn’t help that a few minutes of steady rain in the second overtime period were enough to make the turf and ball slick and unpredictable.Still, the Crimson wasn’t making excuses for its performance down the stretch.“We should be able to handle the physical side of going to overtime over and over again,” junior defender Lizzy Nichols said...
...This is about your will," Bob Turco said to rookie players as they gathered around him on the school's small turf playground. "Your will to accomplish something you don't understand and just say, 'I'm going to prove I can do this.' " With the backdrop of classic Harlem brownstones behind them, the students split into lines and learned basic skills, such as passing and scooping the ball, while Turco called out instructions. "I never see them listen to anyone like this," said Anderson from the sidelines. "This is really something...
...things, too", wrote Fortune Nbumbo, 7. Tatiana Jones, 9, told Obama, "You open the door not just for me, but for everybody." For the students at FLI, the definition of leadership is clearer than it's ever been, and the playing field, even if it's a patch of turf between two brick walls, is slowly leveling...
...version that just opened on Broadway - directed, as it was in London, by Stephen Daldry - has lost a little of the power it displayed on its home turf. But if Prime Minister Gordon Brown's bank-rescue plan can become the model for the rest of the world's finance ministers, there's no reason why Billy Elliot - the best musical to come out of Britain since Miss Saigon - can't bridge the cultural chasm...