Word: turf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shultz's start is encouraging. Two weeks ago, the question of who should chair a Cabinet group on international economic policy came before Reagan. It held the potential for a turf battle, the kind former Secretary Alexander Haig fought continuously, to the discomfort of the President. Shultz spoke up. "When I was Secretary of the Treasury, I felt I should chair the council. Just because I am Secretary of State, I see no reason to change that. Let Don [Regan] have it." Controversy was avoided; Shultz's influence subtly enlarged...
Even more worrisome, after two years of savoring competitive victories, Turner faces some hard-driving rivals on his own turf...
...Shultz in the past 20 years. The thing that most impressed Percy was "his marvelous background in economics." Shultz, a Ph.D. economist, is the first of that breed to preside over America's diplomacy. Economics, Percy believes, lies at the heart of modern statecraft. "And Shultz is not a turf fighter," concluded Percy, referring to Haig's terminal impulse to battle over every perk...
...Port of New York became my Walden Pond," Lewis Mumford recalls in this luminous autobiography. It still is. With unflagging energy and unfailing memory, Mumford, 86, assumes the tone of an urban Thoreau, ransacking the familiar for overlooked truths. His principal turf is the city; his main object of study, himself. Born in 1895 in Flushing, Queens, raised in the precincts of turn-of-the-century Manhattan, educated at City College and the New York Public Library, Mumford was ideally prepared to become one of the great critics of the modern metropolis. He is also one of the most prolific...
...with its tortured, bisexual archbishop, whose encounters with women are invariably brutal. Thy Brother's Wife (contrary to Greeley's mock self-review) is in fact a better, more hopeful book. The pace is quicker, the characters more firmly drawn, the sexual rites gentler. Greeley's turf remains Camelot West: the Chicago of lace-curtain Irish who have pushed their way to the top. Multimillionaire Mike Cronin, who beds women faster than Joe Kennedy could say "Gloria Swanson," has set the course for his two sons. Paul, the Notre Dame boy who goes...