Word: turf
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...during the presidential campaign. "How the f___ am I losing? I'm a war hero!" he imagines McCain thinking. "He came this close to saying, 'He's black!' " Ted Alexandro gets a big laugh by harking back to white America's old fears of blacks moving onto their turf: "Not only is Barack Obama our first black President, but it's the end of white Presidents forever. Because you know what they...
...happened, what ought to have happened, and what we must do in the future to secure America and to raise the issue of security well above politics." It is an ambitious task for a 280-page book, but Ridge seems to touch on all of the highlights - the bureaucratic turf battles, the political pressures, the massive challenge and the occasional missteps...
...bloodshed in Shan state, reporting that 36 junta forces had been killed in the fighting. Estimates for Kokang casualties vary widely. But even the Kokang admit that their outnumbered forces have been no match for the invading Burmese army, which now appears to be occupying large parts of Kokang turf...
Swine flu arrived in Macon County, Alabama, last week, showing up in classrooms at all levels and leaving a spate of empty desks in its wake. But authorities are battling the virus on its own turf, using vacant seats as both a map and compass to stem the tide...
...some see the Mexican laws as a step back rather than forward. Critics in Mexico say that decriminalizing users but not sellers will only strengthen the trafficking mafias that are waging a bloody turf war in Mexico. More than 12,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence in the past three years. The cartels make an estimated $30 billion smuggling narcotics north to American users and some $5 billion more selling to the Mexican market. "It is illogical to have a law that allows drug consumption but does not control where it is coming from," says Representative Enrique...