Word: turfing
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Yesterday, Harvard extended its win streak to three with a tough 2-0 road victory over UMass. Two days earlier on its home turf, the Crimson held on against Fairfield...
...phones for separate markets - a logistical hiccup that would eat into profits. "Spectrum allocation is the biggest problem we have on our plate," says Hyacinth Nwana, Arqiva's managing director of mobile media. For the moment, at least in Europe, the mobile operators still have an edge in the turf war, because they know how to put phones in people's hands and how to mass-market mobile services. And they already provide some video content over their existing networks. But once mobile broadcasting goes mainstream, users could well abandon 3G for the real thing. The near future will likely...
...Hindustan Times, an English-language newspaper, and two magazines?listed on the Bombay stock exchange on Sept. 1 after raising about $90 million through a public stock sale. The IPO marked the climax of an extraordinary year for the Indian newspaper industry, which has seen new editions launched, turf wars fought and sensational stories broken. All this exuberance is a heart-warming sight for newspaper publishers. In most countries, sales and profits of dailies have been declining for years, a slide that has been hastened recently by a surge of fresh competition from the Internet and TV. That...
...newspaper war in their country's history. Until recently, most cities have been dominated by one major English-language newspaper. Bombay, for example, was Times of India territory. A handful of families controlled India's major newspapers, and a gentleman's agreement largely kept them off each other's turf. Not anymore. In Bombay, a new English newspaper called DNA (as in Daily News and Analysis) has launched an advertising blitz, buying dozens of giant billboards around the city, as it prepares to take on the Times of India. At the same time, the Times launched a new tabloid...
...Putting Blame Where it Belongs” (Sep. 12), Mark A Adomanis asks the question, “Why did Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco not declare a state of emergency immediately after the hurricane hit, instead becoming embroiled in an administrative turf war with the federal government?” In truth, Gov. Blanco declared a state of emergency well before the hurricane’s landfall...