Word: turfing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...flock of discount carriers is taking wing this year, bringing lower prices and tougher competition around the world. Orient Thai Airlines launched low-fare One-Two-Go in December to defend its turf from newcomers like AirAsia. Elsewhere in Asia, elite Singapore Airlines is rolling out the cheap seats on its new discount marquee, Tiger Airways, which launches later this year, partly to fend off upstart ValuAir, which has set a May debut...
...strange thing has happened since Sept. 11. Moore and some of his counterparts in other rural and small states have become convinced that their turf is just as threatened as Washington, New York and Chicago. One recent morning, Moore rattled off his doomsday scenarios: "We have two major interstate highways, and a significant proportion of the traffic is hazardous materials. We have two major railroads. Also, Wyoming has major mining, major electrical generating plants and coal-bed methane. Any one of those becomes a vulnerability for a terrorist." A former FBI agent, Moore works in an office decorated with...
...field we played at (in Texas) was pretty ridiculous, with the turf infield and the win blowing out on Saturday,” junior catcher Schuyler Mann said. “But I’m confident that this weekend is going...
...They view it—legitimately—as their turf, in some sense,” Huntington says...
Daniel Glickman said that hearing his son speak on his own turf made him “very proud...