Word: turfing
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...Angeles, was always in terrible shape, trampled by exercise classes, marching bands and other sports teams. So the football team played its "home" games on the field of another school in town. All the while, Claremont High spent as much as $20,000 a year maintaining its own sorry turf...
...week, were about gun crimes is a rude shock for many Britons, shaking their smug self-image as a relatively gun-free society, far removed from those trigger-happy cowboys across the Atlantic. The Birmingham carnage - two girls died and two were injured in the cross-fire between two turf-warring gangs - was supposed to happen in places like Los Angeles or New York, not in British cities where the archetypal bobby goes unarmed. But the Jan. 2 shootings and the gun-crime statistics don't surprise those who live in Britain's inner cities, where drug gangs, particularly Jamaican...
...Factors:: Veterans Stadium turf vs. Michael Vick. The possibilities for injury are too tragic to think about. Both of these defenses are masters at creating turnovers, a trait that can turn momentum in any game...
...alleged Iraq connection makes the case especially troublesome on RJR's home turf. To circumvent economic sanctions against Iraq, the lawsuit alleges, RJR used a former employee, who had become a cigarette distributor in Cyprus, to guide its Winstons and Aspens (the top-selling brand in Iraq) to Baghdad. There, Saddam's son Uday, 38, collected "taxes" on them. The trade is so lucrative, the E.U. alleges, that the Iraqi government allows the Kurdish Workers' Party--considered by the U.S. to be a terrorist organization and by Iraq to be a threat to the regime--to deal in cigarettes...
...It’s a way to do further damage to the school system,” she said. “What I see happening is that Cambridge will descend even further into the turf wars that have surrounded us. I see teachers and parents paralyzed by another year of meetings...