Word: turfing
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...emerge with sustainable energy but we might not see a sustainable industry. As I grapple with this reality, I’ve tried to look for a solution, but I’ve only come away with a lesson: It is complicated using someone else’s turf to do your own good. I’m not saying that Americans should focus biofuel efforts domestically, because corn is not a productive biofuel crop, and using it for ethanol inflates food prices and takes a toll on people who rely on food aid. Rather, I’m implying...
...faculty leadership will further strengthen Radcliffe’s links to Harvard’s faculties and help to shape new cross-disciplinary initiatives by taking advantage of Radcliffe’s neutral turf and convening powers,” Radcliffe Dean Barbara J. Grosz said in the press release...
...employed in 2003 have made a comeback. As commander of the 4th Infantry Division, despite orders to pull back, he kept small outposts in neighborhoods among the residents, ensuring better surveillance and quick response to insurgent attacks, which helped him shut down the fedayeen on Saddam's home turf. The outposts have become one of the cornerstones of the surge strategy...
...have a go at North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on his home turf, but these days, a growing number of South Korean activists seem to be pulling it off - meteorological conditions permitting. "We have to wait for the winds to be just right," says Choi Sung Young, who was able to take advantage of rare southerly winds on the peninsula on Thursday to launch nearly a dozen gas-filled balloons, containing thousands of flyers pillorying Kim Jong Il's regime, and watch them float toward the border. (See pictures of The Rise of Kim Jong...
...mouths are bloody because we’re so angry about those Yalies coming to our turf Saturday. [1] Also because we’ve been chewing on nails. They’re going to bring their boomboxes and obese dogs, and they probably have some sort of scheme to shut down our Student Union. But Prestige and Mobility won’t let any Yalie past, present, or future build us a Student Union, so that he could step foot in it, soil it, and then shut it down. In fact we’d personally go back...