Word: turf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DELARRAIN, on the other hand, was forced to scrape together a couple of hundred thousand dollars for a rent-an-attorney to protect his fiscal turf, not to mention his reputation. When the enemy slinged accusations that he had married a woman old enough to be his dead ancestor, de Larrain was defensive. He really had warm feelings for the old gal, he protested. And even if he didn't he certainly had put in the time...
...Brompton Road. Originally an automobile garage, the shop has enough floor space to comfortably accommodate menswear, women's clothes and a Roman chariot race. "There could be more clothes in it," frets Danish-born Fashion Entrepreneur Peder Bertelsen, who backs Hamnett's retail enterprises on the designer's home turf. "Katharine's very exciting to work with," he adds. "She shouts at me and calls me names I can't find in the English dictionary...
Tomassoni's main turf is the New England area. Here more than anywhere else, Harvard is a dominating force in the recruiting wars...
...competition for recruits--even on its home turf--is intense. Harvard not only has to battle with Ivy League rivals like Yale and Princeton, but also with Boston schools like Northeastern, Boston University and Boston College and schools with huge programs--and big recruiting budgets--like Wisconsin and North Dakota...
Still, McFarlane occasionally gave the impression that he regretted having resigned in December 1985, in the midst of a turf battle with White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, to become a counselor at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies. He missed the excitement of Government service, for all its headaches, and Iranscam probably extinguished his prospects of becoming a policymaker again. Instead of being regarded as a wise elder statesman as he had hoped, McFarlane found himself viewed as the official who had first favorably presented a plan to sell arms to Iran, and thus...