Word: encroacher
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Jurisdictional friction became open warfare in the early 1960s, when the N.C.A.A. created a handful of puppet federations in a blatant attempt to encroach on the A.A.U.'s fuzzily defined domain. The N.C.A.A.'s rationale is that the A.A.U. consists of a bunch of doddering old lettermen who are too inept to cope with modern, big-time athletic events. Many in the A.A.U. answer that the salaried coaches and athletic directors of the N.C.A.A. corrupt their youthful charges by paying them off with scholarships and dubious "fringe benefits...
...study reveals that Ogilvie allocated his time by the following functions and percentage of total hours: public relations, 27%; management of state government, 19%; private social activities, 18%; legislative relations, 16%; political leadership, 11%; intraoffice responsibilities, 6%; out-of-state travel, 5%. Michaelson concedes that "public relations commitments severely encroach upon other gubernatorial functions." But he admits that this is inevitable, since it is not enough for a Governor to master his job. Governing, like justice, must not only be done but be seen to have been done...
...giving Boeing's 747 its first superjet competition. Eventually, McDonnell Douglas engineers expect to produce a "stretched" model-a slightly larger and more powerful version-of the DC-10 that will give it a range of as much as 4,000 miles and thus encroach even further on the 747 markets. (Not to be outdone, Boeing designers are also applying the "stretch" principle to the 747; one plane on their drawing boards would carry 1,000 passengers.) McDonnell Douglas currently has firm orders for 127 DC-10s, which cost about $20 million each, including spare parts...
...same time, Vietnamese are continuing to encroach on land previously abandoned by relocated Montagnards. U. S. officials here point out that the same developments occurred after previous Montagnard relocations in the province...
...Supreme Court's decision in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), which held that a constitutional right of privacy protects married couples from prosecution for using contraceptives. "Sodomy is probably offensive to the vast majority of people," wrote Judge Hughes, but that is "not sufficient reason for the state to encroach upon the liberty of married persons in their private conduct...