Word: turf
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...game is a little different this time. With the iPod, Jobs essentially created a whole new product category. The cell-phone turf is already held by entrenched armies of phonemakers and service providers. They may not be as hip or innovative as Apple, but they will shred one another for nickels, and there are a lot of nickels on the ground. One point of market share in the handset business is worth $1.4 billion. Motorola, having sold more than 50 million Razrs with not enough to show for it, will probably be reverse engineering the iPhone before it hits...
...policeman, so O is sent away from the capital by his long-suffering boss, Chief Inspector Pak, until the heat is off. As in all good mysteries, what looks like a reprieve turns out to be even more trouble. While supposedly lying low, O stumbles across a bloody turf war between two rival intelligence departments over a lawless border town and into the arms of Elena, a Finnish-Chinese femme fatale...
...spoke to TIME on condition of anonymity says Sittar offered the group cars, safe houses and local guides for the foreign volunteers. But that partnership was short-lived. When insurgents began raiding the highways as a means of fundraising, Sittar and his gang began clashing with insurgents in a turf war. "He has no loyalty to anybody or any ideology," the former al-Qaeda fighter says of Sittar. "He wants money and power, and will shake the hand of anybody who he thinks can get him money and power. But tomorrow, he can turn and cut off the same hand...
...former Macy's honcho who is now CEO of JCPenney, bristles at the comparison. "Let me point out that James Cash Penney opened his first store in 1902, off-mall. This is not new for us," he says. "Kohl's is a great competitor. But this isn't their turf. We had to put stores where people are in order to grow...
...murderous political culture, no outsiders can convince them to do otherwise. It can expire only when the Russians themselves grow sufficiently resolved to abolish it - if ever. The West may, however, have an urgent interest in ensuring that Russia's deadly political games are at least played on home turf, and don't spill over Russia's borders - lest the killers, believing they can get away with anything, anywhere, establish precedents of nuclear or any other terrorism on foreign soil...