Word: turfing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Whitehall official said Jackson's remarks were the tip of an iceberg, "very, very significant. There's a lot of concern about Fallujah. The professionals are worried. That's slowed down" consideration of the Pentagon's request. British officers know the U.S. zone is a tougher neighborhood than their turf in Basra. Despite their embarrassment when pictures of British soldiers apparently beating and urinating on an Iraqi captive surfaced last week, they are convinced their general approach of nourishing relationships with locals through constant contact and patient negotiation could help the Americans defuse violence - and obtain good intelligence...
Right now, however, Harvey’s focus is rehabilitating the torn anterior cruciate ligament he suffered on the artificial turf at Columbia’s Wien Stadium...
...when news and entertainment keep invading each other's turf, no one on television better embodies the ideal marriage of the two. Couric can grill Hillary Clinton or Bob Dole (so assertively that his wife had to step in and protest), probe delicate emotions with the Columbine families or Elizabeth Smart's parents, giggle excitedly with the dumbest Hollywood star and ogle the hot handbags for spring--all without a hint of strain. Her interviews on Today (the top-rated TV morning show for the past nine years) often set the news agenda for the day, and her hairstyles...
...exactly what the Tories wanted: to use the vote as a way of forcing a constitutional crisis that would allow them to pry the U.K. out of the E.U. and into some kind of associate membership. But Howard resisted Blair's attempt to shove the contest onto such favorable turf. Instead, he painted the constitution as a way station on the slippery slope to a European superstate, and the downside of rejecting it as minor. "If this constitution does not proceed as a consequence of a no vote in this country, Britain would remain a full participating member...
...polo season will be officially opened today. With all the excitement and color incidental to a polo event of first-grade importance, the Intercollegiate Championship tournament will be begun on the turf of the Westchester Biltmore Country Club, in Rye, when a Harvard team meets Princeton at 3 o'clock this afternoon...