Word: turfing
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...leading landmarks to raise cash. Among the properties being considered for the auction block: the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (home of the 1932 and 1980 Summer Olympic Games), estimated price $400 million; San Quentin state prison, estimated value $1 billion; and Del Mar Fairgrounds (the famed "Where the Turf Meets the Surf" race track north of San Diego), estimated value $500 million. (Read about how recession is threatening the original Surf City...
Many of us really enjoyed CEB Turf. It was no work to them. And they killed it. CEB - you should be ashamed of yourselves. Please never call yourself ‘YOUR College Events Board’ ever again. You sure aren't MY College Events Board. MY College Events Board would never do something so cruel...
Fear not, disappointed Risk-takers—Turf might return at a later date. Meanwhile, the CEB has decided it can do the greatest good for the greatest number by staging a party instead of a war. So go drown your sorrows in alcohol this Saturday at the CEBlock Party, which will take place from 2-5 p.m. on the actual turf outside the MAC. Onward...
...some students seemed to think that the CEB’s move to cancel Turf was...well, an invasion of their turf...
...elected government and install an administration of technocrats. There's no sign of this happening yet, but it remains the only plausible alternative to either Zardari or Sharif. And, of course, the military has not exactly been gung-ho about taking the fight to the militants on its own turf. In short, there simply is no leadership in Pakistan willing or able to do much of what Washington would like a Pakistani leadership to do. Washington has no alternative but to back one or other of the flawed options, because the alternative could prove even more disastrous to U.S. interests...