Word: turfing
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Apart from Cohen’s athletic prowess, the attacker’s attitude both on and off the turf has made him a model player for coaches and teammates alike. Motschwiller notes that Cohen’s love for the game is both evident and inspiring in every situation...
Thirteen is one unlucky number. The Harvard women’s lacrosse team found this out yesterday as No. 13 Dartmouth scored 13 goals on its home turf, beating the Crimson for the 13th year in a row. Despite a tough fight in the last three minutes of play, with Harvard scoring three goals, the Big Green (7-4, 4-1 Ivy) had a comfy seven-point lead to send the Crimson (4-9, 1-4 Ivy) home with a 13-6 loss. “It was kind of the usual thing, simple turnovers, mistakes, not really capitalizing...
...migrants, center for U.S.-owned assembly plants and strategic front in the drug trade, the city of 1.6 million has long enjoyed the best and worst of living next door to the U.S. colossus. However, that relationship has soured in recent months with news of a bloody cartel turf war that has scared many Americans away from even stepping foot in Tijuana. (See pictures of Mexico's war on drugs...
...review has drawn to a close, a turf war has broken out in Washington over which agency should be put in charge of cybersecurity - and get the billions of dollars of federal money that comes with it. Last month, Rod Beckstrom quit as director of the National Cybersecurity Center, citing turf battles between the Department of Homeland Security (which oversees the center) and the National Security Agency. His take on the sudden alarm bells over the power grid's cybersecurity? It's a power grab: a competition between two government agencies to become the main player in cybersecurity...
...news - and not in a good way. The war that Mexican President Felipe Calderón has waged against his nation's drug cartels has predictably been marked by horrible violence. Washington analysts, watching the mayhem in some Mexican towns as cartels settle old scores, fight turf wars and take the fight to overmanned (and all too often, deeply compromised) police forces, have compared Mexico to failed or failing states like Pakistan. (See pictures of fighting crime in Mexico City...