Word: turfed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest shareholder as well as chairman of Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex), Mexico's no-longer-monopoly telephone company, Slim is planning to challenge American giants like AT&T and MCI on their home turf in 1997. The stakes: a bigger share in the $2.5 billion U.S.-Mexico long-distance market. "Our focus is toward Hispanic users in the U.S.," he says. The notion of taking on mammoth American firms is in keeping with the ambitions of multibillionaire Slim, widely assumed to be Mexico's richest man. His Grupo Carso holding company was already worth $1.2 billion in sales...
...American pilots believe the so-called regional jets will really be used to fly longer routes that would normally be flown by American Airlines pilots and that the Eagle pilots, who are represented by another union, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), will continue their encroachment on APA's turf. "The term regional jet is a misnomer," says Captain Rich Rubin, 47, who pilots a wide-body 767 on long-haul routes out of Miami. "It is a long-range, high-performance jet that flies at Mach .81 at 40,000 ft., like a 767. It will deprive...
...Rosenberg, the rooms serve to symbolize and accentuate the comic absurdity on the screen. For example, the parents of the twin brothers, who loathe each other after 30 years of marriage, are staying in the sports stadium room. Astro-turf on the floor, a referee signaling a goal, and the crowds painted on the walls peering down on the contest below -- all highlight the spectacle of their raucous disputes...
...belongs to the hotel itself. Inspired by a Niagara Falls honeymoon hotel, the Hotel de Love features outrageously creative "theme" rooms such as the "Garden of Eden" room, complete with tree, forbidden fruit and serpent, and the "The Grand Finale Passion Suite," modeled after a cricket stadium with astro-turf and recordings of cheering crowds. The rooms nearly steal every scene in which they appear...
...involved in charting America's course for the past four years. Let foreign policy wonks fret over the Grand Strategic Architecture of Post-Cold War Policy; Clinton was pondering personalities, teamwork, chemistry. He wanted known quantities who could ensure a quick and tidy transition; basic compatibility to avoid the turf wars that pulverized the Carter Administration; loyalty over swashbuckling egos; tough, proven negotiating talent and skill at p.r. A Republican to prove bipartisan goodwill. Maybe a promotion for one old friend and a safe haven for another...