Word: turfing
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...Thai security forces have fueled Muslim resentment. Some analysts believe that unidentified Islamic separatists, inspired by the global jihad, are exploiting this anger to launch attacks against the state. Others caution that the south has long been a violent place, with the police, military, gangsters and politicians fighting turf wars with one another over the black-market trade in gasoline, guns, narcotics and other contraband...
...office of Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection-to build the system. But IAIP was almost immediately mugged by the CIA, which backed a new Terrorist Threat Integration Center to do much the same thing. The Pentagon and the FBI ignored both efforts, in the classic passive-aggressive manner of turf-obsessed bureaucrats...
...Bears didn’t have to face Harvard at the preseason Ivy scrimmage in New Haven, which served as a warm up exhibition and whose results determine early CSA rankings. Instead, Brown traveled to Crimson home turf to accept their defeat...
...have been to Clyde. My father grew up in that corner of northwestern Ohio, and every summer of my childhood we drove west, my brother and I staging violent turf wars in the back seat, until we reached country where the flat loamy soil was carpeted in soybeans and corn. Although I am blue-state born and bred, Ohio felt like home, and our trips like homecomings. I snapped beans from my grandparents’ garden into a bowl in my lap so we could eat them for dinner. My grandfather took my brother and me for rides...
Consider the final score, 35-3. Yale did not even get a whiff of the end zone turf in four quarters of play. Save for a second-quarter field goal, the game would have been a complete shutout. Yale’s offense crumbled against a resolute Harvard defense, while the Crimson’s Clifton G. Dawson ’07 broke the Ivy League record for rushing yards in a season against a limp Yalie defensive line. This is the first time since 1922 that Yale’s graduating class has not seen a victory over Harvard...