Word: turfing
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...from the small Italian city of Modena, who had briefly taught elementary school and sold insurance while pursuing his vocal studies. As late as the 1970s Pavarotti liked to say he was still "a country boy," and he played up his modest roots by spending his summers on home turf, swimming, riding horses and expertly whipping up pasta feasts. But his family home was now a 17th century mansion on 12 acres, and there was no disguising his status as an immensely wealthy international superstar. Eventually his prolonged globetrotting absences took a toll on family life. In 1996 he separated...
...Apple encroached on Nokia's turf when it introduced its much-heralded iPhone, Nokia is striking back by taking aim at Apple's dominance in the digital music biz. On Wednesday Aug. 29, in a gala event in London, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo announced that his company will soon fire up its long-anticipated music downloading service. The Nokia Music Store will go live later this year as a crucial component of a new Nokia website called Ovi. Competing against downloading sites like Apple's iTunes, it will let consumers download millions of songs directly onto their...
...just two minutes into the second frame on a header from L.J. Williams. "The game really went back and forth between the two teams," Nichols said. "It was about effort, and it was a pretty even game." Leone suggested that the team had trouble controlling the ball on the turf of Hartford's fields, because Harvard plays on grass in Allston. "We didn't keep the ball, we couldn't settle it, but we have to deal with that," Leone said. "We really just couldn't get into a flow because we didn't keep the ball for any length...
Many of the current cadre of Democratic and Republican candidates are familiar with talk show turf. Both Senators Mitt Romney and John McCain have made appearances on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. On Tuesday night, McCain even used Leno's show to take note of the troubles his campaign has been having. "We are doing so poorly I thought maybe I would announce on this show that I'm running for President of the United States," he told Leno...
...police and fire departments to cooperate is hard anywhere. But New York City was worse than most places. "We had - and still have - a long history of competitive rivalry between the police and fire departments," says Joe Lhota, Giuliani's deputy mayor from 1998 to 2001. This kind of turf war is extremely dangerous. As we now know, the single biggest failing of intelligence agencies before 9/11 and response agencies after Hurricane Katrina was a lack of coordination and communication...