Word: turfed
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...long before there was a Bilbao effect - the revitalization of that scruffy Basque port by Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum there - New York had learned to use a cultural institution for urban renewal. In the 1940s and '50s, large areas of Manhattan's Upper West Side were slums, the turf of the warring street gangs that Leonard Bernstein made famous in West Side Story. But by the early 1960s, the various components of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the first cluster of arts buildings in the U.S., were rising from their foundations. As intended by Robert Moses...
...Returning to the turf where he scalped George W. Bush in 2000, McCain revved up the Straight Talk Express and rode it to more than 100 town-hall meetings. Romney barely knew what hit him. McCain's numbers shot up in the last week before the primary. Says Bernie Streeter, a former mayor of Nashua: "Voters realized that the guy they loved eight years ago was back in the horse race...
...reshuffles the Republican outlook, likely making him and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, the winner of the Iowa caucuses, the leading contenders for the nomination. The results were a jarring blow to Romney, a graduate of Harvard Business School and the Law School, who considers the state his home turf and had spent more than twice as much money as McCain. IOP Director Jim Leach, a former Iowa Congressman and a moderate Republican, said that as the race continues, those candidates who can bridge the nation’s political divide will have an edge. “What...
...African-American; though many have been wary of Obama's chances so far, that could change if he starts to pile up victories. Clinton might instead focus her attention on Nevada, which holds its caucus a week earlier, in hopes of snaring a victory there on presumably friendlier turf. But if Obama continues to gain strength - particularly in the face of attacks by Clinton's campaign - he undercuts her argument that she is the strongest and most electable candidate. And if he can stand up to the assault of the Clinton machine, it will also make him look more formidable...
Sooner or later the politicians were bound to weigh in. On Nov. 7, Stephen Harper announced he was "concerned" about the dollar's "unprecedented" rise, an unusual Prime Ministerial foray on to Bank of Canada turf. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty met with the PM the next day, calling for lower interest rates and a federal contribution to a $1.1 billion jobs fund for struggling Ontario manufacturers. (Harper made no promises.) The same day, the Quebec Premier was demanding a loonie summit with all the provincial Premiers. (One is now scheduled for January). Just six weeks after the loonie achieved parity...