Word: turfing
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...decade ago, France exported three times as much wine as all the so-called New World producers combined. Today France has been overtaken and sells about 15% less than they do. The pummeling is especially bruising on home turf: Europe now imports almost as much wine as it exports. In Britain alone--one of the biggest markets anywhere--the Australians have gone from exotic afterthought to undisputed market leader in a few years. In the U.S., the Australians outsell the French 3 to 1 and have put some California wineries to the sword...
...chorus of n-o-o-o-s. "Not you," the man says. "You're brand new." Obama wanders into a casual disquisition about the sluggish nature of democracy. The answer is not even remotely a standard, pretaped political response. He moves through some fairly arcane turf, talking about how political gerrymandering has led to a generation of politicians who come from safe districts where they don't have to consider the other side of the debate, which has made compromise--and therefore legislative progress--more difficult. "That's why I favored Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal last year, a nonpartisan commission...
...because of the quality facilities,” said Bill Gaine, deputy director of the MIAA. But the stadium’s renovation is not yet complete, inhibiting it from hosting all of the MIAA Super Bowl games. Night games cannot be played on the stadium’s turf because new field lights have yet to be installed, according to Gaines. “We don’t have a clean agreement yet, we’re still dealing with a couple of issues,” he said, The agreement is a community service effort...
...term Democrat's West Virginia district don't seem to care too much. In West Virginia, after all, pork barrel spending isn't frowned upon; on the contrary, the home state of legendary Senator Robert Byrd, widely considered the king of steering federal dollars to a congressman's home turf, tends to view the practice as just another way to provide jobs for the family down the street, if not for your own. And so far, questions about Mollohan's use of the clout associated with his seat on the appropriations committee have failed to derail his campaign...
...nuclear weapons rejoined with new vigor. China will face the uncomfortable reality that its patronage of and friendship with North Korea gave it no leverage, at the decisive moment, over a troublesome neighbor whose actions threaten to destabilize the entire region and provoke a more assertive U.S. presence on turf that Beijing regards as its own back yard...