Word: turfing
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...space station's prime contractor is Boeing, with offices in Seattle, Houston and Huntsville, Ala. In recent years, however, NASA has distributed the goodies to 67 other prime contractors and 35 major subcontractors in 22 states. Much of the most important work is being done on the home turf of some of Washington's key lawmakers. Boeing's Huntington Beach, Calif., facility, for example, is located in the district of Republican Dana Rohrabacher, chairman of the Space and Aeronautics subcommittee. The Alabama district of Democrat Robert Cramer Jr., of the VA, HUD and Independent Agencies subcommittee, is home...
...flying squirrel, which doesn't leave a lot of room to stretch beyond type. We learn in the opening moments of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle that the eponymous heroes of Jay Ward's beloved (and weirdly iconic) '60s television series have retreated to their home turf, Frostbite Falls; that their typical residual check has dwindled to 3.5[cents]; that the pretty forest where they once romped has been reduced to stumps...
...long time. It was nothing like what I remembered about ballgames. The stadium had been packed--even where I was, on the third deck--and there had been an almost savage tension in the air. Then again, I had never attended a famed Mets game on their own home turf, with La Guardia planes flying overhead and all, and one more thing: It was John Rocker's return to Shea Stadium...
Still, Armani is facing stiff competition on its home turf--men's suits--from the likes of Ermenegildo Zegna. And 19 years after its introduction, the younger and cheaper Emporio Armani collection is struggling to define its identity with the notoriously fickle 25- to 35-year-old market. That was one reason Armani hired Grossman, his first U.S. chief in five years...
...Baltimore has never enjoyed the decline experienced by the rest of the country. New Mayor Martin O'Malley, who won office with a promise to reduce violent crime, says an unintended side effect of his crackdown on open-air drug markets was to drive dealers into other neighborhoods, sparking turf wars that caused 24 homicides...