With foreign dignitaries expected to arrive ahead of the memorial events planned for this week, potholes were being filled and grass verges cut.
That way, "the whole verge would be cut properly, and you would get some species coming back and flowering a bit later," said Dines.
Now the former Rookie of the Year and NL Most Valuable Player has been benched by his manager and is on the verge of being cut.
The South African Tim Clark shot a four-over 40 on the front nine and seemed on the verge of missing the cut, but he rallied with a brilliant 31 on the back nine to finish at five-under 139.
What was your reaction to President Bush's decision last summer to restrict federally financed stem cell research to the existing cell lines? A. I was disappointed, certainly, but you have to remember, we were on the verge of this being cut off.
Barring a long war, however, consumers have given little indication that they are on the verge of sharp new cuts in spending.
Tiger Woods has not won his last few tournaments, and in a couple was verging on missing the cut, not because he lost distance off the tee.
Here Britain stands on the verge of cataclysmic social cuts, where the poorest are already hit hardest and stricken regions of the north will suffer most.
However, power-line corridors, road verges and clear-cuts cover larger areas (in total about 2,000,000 ha), and these open, less intensively managed habitats are potentially important for species associated with taller vegetation and flower resources (e.g. pollinating insects).
A year ago, with the industrial city in northeastern Pennsylvania on the verge of bankruptcy, the mayor cut city workers' pay to the minimum wage.
