Word: turf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conduct of strategic arms control, TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott chronicled the intense infighting on the American side and the frequently acrimonious negotiations in Geneva. In the following account, he has assembled the hitherto untold story of a divided Government at work, of U.S. officials battling one another over turf, military strategy and political philosophy, even as they
...while the apprentices generally report satisfaction with the work they have done in the laboratories, there are some problems, including graduate students and travel. "Some of the graduate students are hostile, they think we're invading their turf," says one undergrad researcher, who asked to remain anonymous, but adds. "It's also tough to generalize; many of them are terrifically nice and helpful...
...immediate future, at least, both Warner and Rauch's plans will keep them on surprisingly familiar turf--opposite sides of Brattle Street Rauch will spend the summer directing in the Agassiz. Warner is running the HRDC summer theater--a return of sorts to the group which had not accepted a show of his since Agamemnon, and whose internal politics he says helped spur him to work outside Harvard after sophomore year...
White remembers the racial strife that existed when he was a youth. "When I was a boy the real tensions were between the Irish and the Italians, and they were bitter, and they were physical, and they weren't just fun. But it was neighborhood turf...
...cowboy. Lanky Coloradan Hart comes a lot closer, at least to the urban variety. He wears cowhide boots and an oversize brass belt buckle, and is the only Democrat who can wear a ten-gallon hat and look as if he means it. Nor does the territory offer fertile turf for the former Vice President. Texas is a right-to-work state where unions are about as popular as taxes and Big Government is loved even less than the Washington Redskins. Hart's anti-Big Labor, pro-energy-development stands should play better than Mondale's traditional...