Word: turfing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...angry as anybody about those bonuses," it sounds clearer that he's not as angry as anybody. And he may actually do better in tough Q&As, like his press conferences, than in soft ones like Leno's. He gaffes more when he feels he's on friendly turf. (See his flub about "bitter" small-town Americans at a fundraiser in the primaries...
...being used to "implement, continue, promote or in any way permit" a two-year-old pilot program that allowed some Mexican trucks to operate in the U.S. Pressure for the clause had come directly from the Teamsters, who have long opposed competition from the Mexican 18-wheelers on their turf, complaining that the foreign truckers don't meet U.S. safety standards...
...will specifically chose 20 pieces for a silent auction and 20 percent of their profits will go to maintaining the show in the years to come.Though clichéd college posters will continue to stake their territory on student walls, these glossy sheets may now have to share that turf with original student paintings. If the Harvard Student Art Show proves successful in its first run, perhaps in time stock photos may find themselves outnumbered by idiosyncratic paintings and brushstrokes created by their Harvard peers...
...regime before signing a peace treaty in 1994. Most Kachin are Christian, and they believe their faith makes them particularly vulnerable to persecution by the exclusively Buddhist junta. In a complicated arrangement, the KIO controls some territory on Kachin's border with China. Chinese trucks that rumble through KIO turf pay taxes on the jade, gold and timber they're carrying, and KIO officials say the Chinese generally pay up, lest instability infect the area. "China wants Burma as a buffer state," says Gun Maw. "It wants Burma to be secure - so China will be secure...
Participants at those Faculty meetings agree that the next four months were characterized by turf battles—professors jockeying to make sure that their discipline would find its place...