Word: turf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee, Joseph Montoya found New Mexicans surprisingly sympathetic about criticism of his performance. It was not his fault, they said, that the press derided him for asking repetitive or irrelevant questions. He was in fast company, and it was hard to keep up under the TV pressure. On home turf, he is noted for his oratory in both Spanish or English...
...Wipe out many of the distinctions between banks and S and Ls, permitting each to invade the other's turf. S and Ls, which now concentrate on making mortgage loans, could offer checking accounts, credit cards and consumer loans. Banks could accept savings accounts from corporations, which only S and Ls can do now, and would be encouraged to expand mortgage lending. Regulations on loan size and collateral that now restrict banks' mortgage lending would be eased...
Enter Watchung Pharmaceutical, an expanding drug firm that lusts after Howard's turf as well as 250 acres of prime undeveloped land adjoining it. A tiny zoning change will make the property-a potential community park-eligible for commercial development, and Watchung has the town's most influential councilman in its pocket. Corporate triumph seems inevitable-until Howard Butler discovers that his outcast condition enables him to risk the heroic...
Among the phenomena of the 1950s was the rise of the violent urban gangs with their freewheeling, sometimes lethal "rumbles" in protection of their "turf." By the mid-'60s, gangs seemed to be on the wane, their vital energies either drawn into the protest movements of that era or sapped by the burgeoning drug culture...
...Philadelphia, a gang is called a "corner," and a gang leader is a "runner" or a "checkholder." Smokey, aged 19, dressed in a flaming red shirt and matching narrow-brimmed hat, is the runner of the Montgomery corner, and he is expecting trouble from the Norris Avenue corner, whose turf is just across Berks Street. "I keep everybody together, plan any action we might take," he explains coolly. Just then a corner member, who looks to be no more than nine or ten, points a finger and yells: "Three dudes coming up. Looks like warrin' time." As the three...