Word: turfing
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...would finally be able to focus on reexamining pedagogy and completing an inspiring curricular review. FAS would be primed for a heady future after the handover to a new dean at the end of the year.If only it were so. Instead, leadership shake-ups, a budget deficit, pedagogical malaise, turf wars, and damaged relations with students were the common threads tying together a year that was disappointing by any standard. McKay Professor of Computer Science Michael D. Smith, who was named Dean of the Faculty Monday, faces quite a challenge in uniting and inspiring the Faculty.The main business...
...Navy’s always hard, but we’ll have a good advantage because we’ll be on our home turf,” said second varsity coxswain Kevin He before the race. “We’re strong and work well together, and in the end, it all comes down to determination...
...Ireland's northwest coast, buffeting the yellow gorse bushes and pink rhododendrons that cling stoutly to the vast green bog stepped and striped black by centuries of cutting for household fuel. Like most of the Gaelic-speaking locals in Rossport, Willie Corduff has lived all his life here, cutting turf and seaweed, raising a few animals and getting by on frugality...
...lorries stream through the steel gates carrying away tons of soft turf being stripped away in search of solid ground on which to build the Ballinaboy refinery, a handful of campaigners huddle nearby in a converted horse trailer, fortifying themselves with hot tea, iced buns and buttered fruit loaf. At the gates a few gardai stand around looking glum and bored, with a wistful eye perhaps on their colleagues in the warm, dry police van parked nearby. The arrival of a reporter and a photographer produces a flurry of activity. When a dozen or so protesters make for the gates...
...Some of the French critics derided the film; perhaps they were affronted that an American dared to poach on French turf. The audience response, though, was rapturous. Will the Jury be as enthusiastic? As we said, there are pointers to be taken from past Cannes awards. But do note that the film's screenwriter, Ronald Harwood, also wrote another true-life story of egregious suffering and improbable triumph: the Palme d'Or winner The Pianist...