Word: verdant
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Nike is staying hitched to the stars. Indeed, it is hard to overstate Nike's veneration for top jocks. The company's verdant campus headquarters just outside Portland is a sort of perspiration museum. Knight's office is in the John McEnroe Building. Other structures are named for Jordan and marathoners Alberto Salazar and Joan Benoit Samuelson. Preschool linebackers are dropped off in the Joe Paterno day-care facility, while the grownups work out in the Bo Jackson sports center...
Within hours, car, bus or train can transport you to splendid coastal vistas, verdant rolling mountains or quaint historic towns. Whether you're seeking an athletic adventure, an intellectual pursuit or a shopping extravaganza, these prime destinations will not disappoint. They're easily accessible and decidedly refreshing. So hop in a car and take off. With no language barriers or fear of lost luggage, nothing could be easier...
March, however, is also the month of spring training, that annual ritual of renewal on the verdant fields of the sunny South. Snapping gloves and cracking bats seem to force the spring even for those of us bracing for the next Noreaster. When the boys of summer return, winter seems a passing memory...
Cambridge is not safe. Even the lush, verdant lawns of Harvard Yard have ceased to be a haven from crime. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Cambridge was ninth in violent crime in Massachusetts...
...grass was lush and verdant enough, but it seemed even more so because for the previous 22 years, the field in Royals Stadium (now Kauffman Stadium) had been covered by that insult to both aesthetics and orthopedics, artificial turf. "We have nine different grasses at work here," George Toma, the Royals' ground-keeping consultant said last Wednesday, an hour before the first pitch of the season, in Kansas City. "Five bluegrass types-Princeton 104, Eclipse, Nassau, Glade and Suffolk-and four ryes-Derby, Gator, Regal and Top Hat. They act like a team. If one or two get sick...