Word: turfing
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...pace of change is slow - both inside and outside the medical field. "Even though doctors say they're lacking the absolute numbers, they're protective of their turf and don't want masses of nurses and others taking up their business," says Kondo. "Fundamentally, you're touching on something deeply political in Japan." And unfortunately, it's the people they are trying to help who are paying the price...
Since returning to Washington, he has expanded his turf so that it touches on nearly every area of domestic and international policy, from health-care reform to trade. Obama has elevated Summers to a level on par with the President's daily intelligence briefers, asking him to orchestrate work-ups each morning on the deteriorating economy. Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman, refers to him in briefings as "Dr. Summers," with a deference that suggests Summers has powers out of science fiction. Stopped in a White House hallway in late January, David Axelrod, Obama's closest political aide, speaks with...
...When Virginia's Democratic Senator Mark Warner asked the SEC nominee if "we needed prohibition of some financial instruments?, she answered cautiously: "We will explore prohibiting some instruments." She added that one big problem was turf wars among regulatory agencies. "Regulators need to cooperate," she said. "We haven't shared in past, we need a maximum number of eyes" to stop fraud...
...California, Biggie restored some bicoastal equilibrium with his quadruple-platinum CD Ready to Die. After that, the headlines were mostly police-blotter stuff. In 1996 his ex-friend, then rival Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas. The following year, when Biggie made an incursion onto L.A. turf to promote his new album, he was shot and killed. (Neither murder was officially solved.) In 2003 Shakur got a zazzy docutribute, Tupac: Resurrection. Now comes Biggie's biopic. It's like the Day the Music Died for rhyming street punks...
...more vulnerable to attack when forced out of their hiding places and fortifications. Israel not only has the advantage of air cover and the overview of the battlefield it affords but will also use its high-tech abilities to operate by night against Hamas forces on home turf...