Word: bailwick
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Faculty officials set out budgetary goals each year for every division, department and office under their bailwick. During the year they keep their fingers crossed, and at its end, they punch all their figures into their computer and hope the money that came in will end up somewhere near the money they spent...
...this point Atty. Hollowell asked the Judge to order the Sheriff away from the judge's bench, where he had been lounging casually. The judge announced that the Sheriff, as an officer of the court, could stay wherever he wanted. This was Johnson's bailwick, and it was not difficult to see who was in command of the proceedings as he talked to the State's attorneys and joked with the judge during the progress of the trials...
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