Word: turf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...holdings include such staid institutions as the Australian of Sydney and the Times of London. But the eight big-city tabloids of Press Baron Rupert Murdoch, 52, which cover their turf from Boston to Fleet Street, rarely stray from lurid roots: NUDE PRINCIPAL DEAD IN MOTEL (San Antonio Express); HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR (New York Post). Last week Murdoch took his headline high jinks to the U.S. heartland. He bought the troubled Chicago Sun-Times, the nation's eighth largest urban daily, for $90 million in cash...
...Bluebird Stadium, the scoreboard does not zap, crackle and pop; an unseen hand changes the goose eggs each inning. No Astro-Turf here; cows graze on the infield in anticipation of Farm Night, when the ballplayers have a hand at milking them. The team is a collection of youths on the way up and burned-out cases on the way down. There is the hot prospect (Patrick Cassidy) who is a terror in the outfield and a bed wetter at home. And the hick pitcher (Barry Tubbs) who appears to get height sickness when he climbs the pitcher...
...Harvard win this Saturday over the Bulldogs would force a one-game playoff with Penn for the title and the accompanying NCAA tourney berth. The Crimson. 3-1 victors over Penn earlier this year, would meet the Quakers on artificial turf (according to an Ivy vote on playoff rules) at a neutral site to be determined...
...Harvard women's cross-country taken is seeking out its turf in the Bronx. The Crimson yesterday won its second straight Hepsagotal title-in affect, the Ivy champion ship-in New York city's Van Cortlandt park...
...White House meetings, says one Reagan aide, "she doesn't give an inch. When she really gets going, she throws down her glasses on the table." Reagan's advisers surely knew that if she were picked, Kirkpatrick could be expected to exacerbate rather than mediate Administration turf and ideological disputes. Her hard-line views, held with sometimes evangelical fervor, can be bracing when aired in the U.N. hall, but might be too rigid in the pivotal White House foreign policy slot...