Word: turf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aggressive style have been coupled at the Treasury Department with a loyalty to the President that borders on being sycophantic. Critics complain that Regan is a mere cheerleader, with no strong policy beliefs of his own. At the same time, he has shown an outsize concern with turf and prerogatives. Predicts one of his former colleagues: "He'll try to do it all himself. He can't stand sharing the limelight." That could mean that Regan will tend to keep other advisers away from the President. At worst, eager-to-please Regan could wind up telling the boss only what...
Such accolades are tough to come by in academe, where scholars guard their intellectual turf and rarely show kindness toward a contrary thesis. Abraham's volume laid a measure of blame for the failure of the post-World War I German government upon German businessmen, who came to favor Hitler, a view that scholars have squabbled about for decades. The book, with its Marxist perspective, was respected even by uncompromising Gerald D. Feldman, a University of California expert on late imperial and Weimar Germany. Feldman had critiqued an early draft and pronounced the volume "imaginative and interesting...
...pestilence of antsy people who stand for everything the stranger next to them stands for --meaning nothing in particular--the Wrigley customers had the rare grace to stay down in front. Regarding the wave, they agree with the ample broadcaster John Madden: "It is just another form of artificial turf." Concerning artificial turf, they concur with the retired philosopher Richie Allen: "If horses won't eat it, I don't want to play on it." Against these and most other modern innovations, nearly all of them television related, the game's purest followers stand foursquare. But what really gets...
...deft political moves have made him one of the most valuable players in the Republican Party, but last week U.S. Congressman Jack Kemp, 49, was back on his home turf in Buffalo to attend the retirement ceremony of No. 15, which the former Bills quarterback wore when he led the team to consecutive A.F.L. championships in 1964 and 1965. After his name was added to O.J. Simpson's (No. 32) on Rich Stadium's Wall of Fame, Kemp donned his old jersey and watched his team end a 13-game losing streak by upsetting the first-place Dallas...
...America, as the band launches its first tour any time, anywhere. Frankie has yet to make a deep dent in the U.S. charts; they are still more of a curiosity Stateside than a genuine phenomenon, which raises the question of why they did not start to concertize on home turf. Catching the group live may provide an answer. They need the studio, with all its electronics and synthesized sleight of hand; they need the invention of Producer Trevor Horn, his ability to sandwich them like luncheon meat between thick layers of sound. They got famous before they got good...