Word: bailiwick
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...Giannini's invitation after an early career in banking, took over as president in 1954. So wrapped up is he in his job that he has given up all outside hobbies (except gardening). His chief task has been to transform the bank from the temperamental, one-man bailiwick of autocratic A. P. Giannini into a smoothly mechanical, multiple-management operation...
...Outgained in all departments, Navy made use of a rocklike defense to stop Michigan drives seven times, pull a 20-14 upset to label itself a slight threat to Army in the East. Cornell proved once more the folly of Ivy League teams competing outside their own bailiwick. The undefeated Big Red got mauled 55-0 by Syracuse in a game so lopsided that Syracuse Coach Ben Schwartzwalder had to send for an old set of jerseys to have enough to mercifully suit up his fifth-stringers...
...lets them allocate funds for research in neighborhood medical centers. N.F.I.P. forbids its chapters to join in any concerted fund drive, and it refused to guarantee that local commitments would be allowed to run their course. When the A. & R. F. asked the N.F.I.P. to stay out of its bailiwick for at least a year, N.F.I.P. replied: "Individual diseases are not the personal property of individual organizations...
...announcement because the campaign "will not affect our personal friendship in any way." Also in the running: former U.S. Representative Thomas J. Dodd, who tried for the Senate in 1956, felt that the state machine failed to back him, this year has virtually sewed up his own powerful bailiwick of Hartford County (pop. 619,000) and much organizational support, may well mow down both Benton and Bowles...
WASHINGTON, March 14--Poker-faced William Langley, district attorney of Portland, Ore., took the Fifth Amendment before the Senate committee investigating rackets today and refused to testify about gambling and prostitution in his bailiwick...