Word: turfing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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According to Harris Band, the University’s director of planning, building on the marshy, riverside turf where athletics field are could potentially cost twice as much as building on dry ground would...
...Wildcats, seeded third and ranked seventh nationally, held all the cards, with home turf, thousands of fans and one of the best starting lineups to hit the floor this year. However, No. 14 seed Harvard’s ace popped up in the fourth quarter, in the form of timely three-pointers that ignited a Crimson rally and cut Kansas State’s 19-point lead to a mere eight with just six minutes...
...Daily Racing Form has been around since 1894. Beside its red logo, the paper proclaims itself “America’s Turf Authority...
...lethally efficient militia based in Lebanon and labeled a terrorist group by the U.S. Exploiting its burgeoning popularity in Palestine, Hizballah has cultivated an extensive network of operatives in the West Bank and Gaza since the intifadeh started 32 months ago. This makes Hamas--which has both its political turf and a reputation as Israel's chief nemesis to protect--rather jittery...
...effective security authority in most West Bank towns and cities, having reoccupied them in the hope of stopping a relentless wave of suicide bombings inside Israel-proper. The Palestinians say they can't reconstitute their shattered security services as long as Israeli maintains a stranglehold on their turf, and argue that an Israeli withdrawal is a prerequisite for a crackdown on terrorism. But Sharon is in no mood to accept half-measures, and insists that Israel will deal only with a Palestinian Authority willing to disarm the Palestinian organizations that carry out terror attacks - Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Fatah...