Word: turf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drug. Users are maturing, if not heading into middle age, and dealers are less aggressive in recruiting youths, who tend to be turned off by crack's devastation (and more interested in the trendier, mellower highs of drugs like heroin). And the business has become more, well, mature as turf wars have been decided and trade has shifted from street sales to indoor client-list transactions. Then there's the bottom-line dictum offered by an expert: "Killing is bad for business...
...drug. Users are maturing, if not heading into middle age, and dealers are less aggressive in recruiting youths, who tend to be turned off by crack's devastation (and more interested in the trendier, mellower highs of drugs like heroin). And the business has become more, well, mature as turf wars have been decided and trade has shifted from street sales to indoor client-list transactions. Then there's the bottom-line dictum offered by an expert: "Killing is bad for business...
...cosmetics floor and adding a multitude of new services, including free makeovers and informal seminars on anti-aging treatments. The cosmetics floors at Bloomingdale's stores in Manhattan and Century City, Calif., have recently finished renovations to make their products more accessible to customers and the sales turf easier to navigate...
...bloody power struggle between Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano. Lucky offered to eliminate his boss and end the violence, which he saw as disruptive to business. At an Italian restaurant, Joe the Boss ate lead. Lucky assumed control of the dead man's lottery business, while Maranzano seized his bootlegging turf...
...tone for U.S. industry. GE became highly productive by undertaking a complex reorganization that simplified the company into one with dominant positions in its carefully chosen businesses. Welch then remade GE into a boundaryless organization that encouraged, and got, participation from employees at all levels. He extinguished turf wars and the not-invented-here syndrome that stultifies large companies. And he spread the wealth with stock options. It was a monumental accomplishment in a company of GE's diversity and size. He was the force behind GE's Crotonville leadership-development center at Ossining, N.Y.--No. 1 in the world...