Word: turfing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...simply, it's gotta be the turf...
...Zacarian's ability will be tested on a surface that should further Harvard's prospects this year. Most of the country's better Division I programs are moving away from grass fields, as turf tends to create a faster-paced game...
...Having Jordan Field, we are a turf team now," said Nagle. "Field hockey is meant to be played on turf--the surface is true and fast, which increases both speed of thought as well as the game in general...
...Having been at war for 36 years and flush with cash from taxing the narcos, the FARC maintains a sophisticated fighting force of more than 15,000 guerrillas. They control some 40 percent of the country, and are engaged in turf wars with a smaller rival leftist group, the ELN, as well as with right-wing paramilitaries accused by human rights organizations of committing some of the worst massacres of the long-running civil war. Ideology aside, they all are battling for control over the coca fields and the power to tax the drug trade and everything else in their...
...Bush's promise to "restore honor and dignity to the White House" by making it seem that he's just as good a guy as George W. - well, maybe not as likable, but just as monogamous. Now Bush finds himself in hand-to-hand combat on Gore's wonky turf, and issues have not been his best weapons. For this year's voters, Bush's tax cut seems too big and his Social Security privatization seems too bold. Bush is selling change and Gore is selling incumbency, and now that the veep has made himself at least a believable president...