Word: turfing
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...back end of a weekend road double feature against Gehrig heavyweights Princeton and Cornell, the Crimson (8-9-1, 4-0 Ivy) swept the defending division champion Big Red (5-12, 1-3) on its own turf. And it did so in dominant fashion, scoring 26 runs and allowing only nine...
Though the Pentagon can't say what effect America's Army has had on recruitment or how Real Heroes might do, here's an outcome they might not have foreseen: an action-figure civil war, once G.I. Joe realizes there are some new American heroes muscling in on his turf...
...confrontations with the militias. But last month alone, soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division in Baghdad have had what the official calls 19 "encounters" with militias, including a shooting incident. The danger is that the bigger the militias get, the more likely they are to intensify their clashes over turf and authority. A U.S. military-intelligence officer says there is still some reason to believe that Iraqis will put their common interests ahead of their rivalries. "In this society, there are many ties that bind--from tribe to clan to educational, social and political," he says. "I don't think...
...brighter colors and produced Hello Kitty and Winnie the Pooh models to take advantage of local licensing agreements. But success spawned cheap copies, slicing HSL's monopoly market share in half. In a neat bit of counterprogramming, however, its man in Japan recommended fighting the pirates on their turf: self-serve discounters. So HSL created Cruz, a lower-priced sub-brand, exclusively for Japan...
...Beyond turf wars and tenure decisions, our surroundings are integral to the opportunities Harvard College can provide. My course on education policy at the Kennedy School included classmates who had actually been inside classrooms, education departments, and state legislatures. There are undergrads here who do labwork at HMS, attend panel discussions at HLS, and study architecture...