Word: turfing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...staff - which now includes almost every Democratic consultant alive - has been split over strategy. With the President beating Kerry on the issue of national security and the war in Iraq, how should Kerry respond? Should he hit back hard on national security, or fight on the Democrats? favored turf - the economy, health care and education...
...icon of the Japanese capital, Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel. Or its lobby, at any rate. Built in 1923 near Tokyo's palace, the hotel was torn down in 1965?but not before preservationists managed to dismantle and move a portion to the museum. Visitors can enter the turf stone and brick remains, restored to include a coffee shop, replete with original Wright-designed furnishings. Guests often queue up to slip into rented period costumes for photographs beside the fountain out front...
With her first major film role and two books on the way, Alicia Keys is conquering new territory. But on Aug. 29 the soul princess of Queens will return to more familiar turf: performing with her piano at MTV's Video Music Awards...
...into Sharing. She is a zealous guardian of her vast inventory of toys and games, her collection of more than 14,000 stuffed animals, even her handcrafted-from-natural-material playthings, given to her by liberals, which of course she never plays with. When another child ventures onto her turf and shows an interest in, say, one tiny stuffed llama made by Peruvian peasants from organic wool, the darling snatches it away, and her parents have to browbeat her into civility. The old man worries about this. I can visualize her as a selfish, overbearing snot--visions of the Bush...
Wouldn't it be wonderful if, instead of having turf battles over who is in charge of intelligence gathering, the heads of the FBI and the CIA, ALONG WITH THEIR AIDES, would meet weekly for a full day to brainstorm, share information and ideas and make plans for future interagency cooperation? BRUCE BARTEL Huntington Beach, Calif...