Word: turfing
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...Ration your turf...
...marketing to a growing Chinese fan base. And long before they bagged this year's Super Bowl, the New York Giants edged the Miami Dolphins at London's Wembley Stadium last October, in the first regular season NFL game played outside the Americas. Says Chadwick, "There's a global turf war taking place in sport. It's not just about revenue generation, it's about reinforcing and preserving a competitive position." Scudamore didn't need reminding. "If we don't do it, another sport is going to come and do it unto us ... Or another football league is gonna...
...example, the White House killed a $108 million Corps jetty project that Senator Jesse Helms had rammed through Congress to protect fishing boats on North Carolina. It was a stunning intrusion on congressional turf, and a laudable one; the jetties would have ravaged the Outer Banks at a cost of more than $500,000 per boat. In fact, Bush's Office of Management and Budget has consistently proposed zero funding for the agency's most environmentally disastrous and economically ludicrous pork - the Yazoo pump, a $300 million irrigation project for a few Arkansas rice farmers, a $300 million deepening...
Tennessee was Fred Thompson's turf until the Senator-turned actor abandoned his 2008 presidential hopes on January 22 with his name still on the ballot and early voting already underway. His departure has left the state's Republican primary race tightly split between John McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, while Hillary Clinton, who has long enjoyed the loyalty of state Democrats, is expected to easily carry the Democratic primary on Super Tuesday, thanks in part to party faithful who remember her husband carrying the state in the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections with favorite son Al Gore...
...Anti-drug officials believe the uptick in clashes between the police and gunmen of the cartels is a sign that Mexico's long-running drug violence has entered a new phase. Until recently, most fighting had involved rival traffickers battling over turf, but today most of the violence is between the federal government and the gangsters. The year-long government crackdown has seriously rattled the cartels, the officials say, and they are making an orchestrated attempt to get the government to back...