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	Turf war - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Turf war is a term that describes a common problem in larger companies when two divisions fight for access to resources or capital.
		It can also be described as contention for any resource between two or more parties resulting in confrontation.
		Phrase may have originated as a reference to the game of American Football where two teams confront each other on a field of grass also known as Turf.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turf_war (116 words)

	CBS News \| Fighting Turf War With Polka Dots \| September 29, 2005 14:30:11
		But the city counters that is not the case and the turf is not in "the spirit" of its landscaping ordinances, if not in outright defiance of it.
		Greg Niles, the city's community development director, said he does not think the synthetic grass is consistent with the current landscaping code, and it wasn't intended as a viable landscaping option in the island city of 15,000 year-round and 35,000 seasonal residents.
		He has lived on the island for 26 years, and though he is the one in the middle of this fight with the city, he is not the only person with this kind of turf on his property.
	cbsnews.com /stories/2005/01/05/earlyshow/living/home/main664883.shtml (884 words)

	Keeping asphalt may be answer to Chinatown turf war
		The feuding factions of the Columbus Park turf war may soon strike a truce, but there is little hope either side will ever make nice and play together.
		With a meeting slated for next Wednesday between local elected officials, the Parks Department and the proponents and opponents of synthetic turf, all sides have agreed on one thing, at least: a compromise is imminent.
		One possible compromise is a combination turf-asphalt park, with a turf ball field in the center of the park surrounded by rubber-painted asphalt.
	www.thevillager.com /villager_76/keepingasphaltmaybe.html (853 words)

	Naples, kingdom of on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Refusing to give up their claim to Sicily, Charles and his successors warred with the house of Aragón, which held the island, until in 1373 Queen Joanna I of Naples formally renounced her claim.
		In the War of the Spanish Succession the kingdom was occupied (1707) by Austria, which kept it by the terms of the Peace of Utrecht (1713; see Utrecht, Peace of).
		During the War of the Polish Succession, however, Don Carlos of Bourbon (later Charles III of Spain) reconquered Naples and Sicily.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/Naples-k.asp (1100 words)

	CBS News \| Fighting Turf War With Polka Dots \| January 5, 2005 11:30:12
		The city counters that the turf is not in "the spirit" of its landscaping ordinances, if not in outright defiance of it.
		Greg Niles, the city's community development director, said he does not think synthetic grass is consistent with the current landscaping code, and it isn't intended as a viable landscaping option in the island city of 15,000 year-round and 35,000 seasonal residents.
		Ehlen has lived on the island for 26 years, and though he is the one in the middle of this fight with the city, he is not the only person with this kind of turf on his property.
	cbsnews.com /stories/2005/01/05/earlyshow/living/home/main664864.shtml (922 words)

	Turf War
		I continue my ramble up the delightful strip of riparian real estate and several minutes later arrive at the Holocaust memorial near 83rd Street, upon whose discreet plaque an adorable poodle, her hind legs in demi-plié position, is releasing a bladderful of piss.
		Turf battles in the city’s parks between dogs and people (or more fairly between dog people and ordinary people) are neither uncommon nor new.
		Betsy Barlow Rogers, founder of the Central Park Conservancy and the leading force in the park’s transformation from seventies moonscape to nineties grandeur, says administrators are “always under pressure to give away pieces of the park to special interests.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/urban/pets_animals/features/2734 (1179 words)

	Hospitality overkill in Turf War
		MUMBAI, DEC 8: While everyone is complaining that night life in the city has ground to a halt, racegoers have been burning the turf with parties galore.
		This is that time of the year when the Royal Western India Turf Club (RWITC) breaks out into a frenzy of wining and and dining.
		And even the spacious Turf Club grounds looked crowded with the number of invitees that turned up -- 1,500 cards had been sent out but there seemed to be at least double that number.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19981209/34350634.html (517 words)

	The Quack-Files: "Turf war," my tush!
		Latest salvo in turf war: Children are being treated for asthma, colds, bedwetting
		The statement, released yesterday, is the latest salvo in a turf war between chiropractors and medical doctors.
		When someone claims it's a "turf war" or let's you believe it is
	www.geocities.com /healthbase/turf_war.html (434 words)

	Checkbiotech.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The turf is a genetically modified version of the creeping bentgrass popular on golf course greens and fairways, and it is being tested here by Scotts Co., which hopes its creation will be resistant to a common weed-killing chemical.
		The grass seeds are dispersed by flowering blossoms, but the turf on a golf course is never allowed to grow tall enough to flower.
		The natural version of creeping bentgrass is the perfect surface for a golf ball because, as its name suggests, it creeps - growing in a smooth horizontal plane.
	www.checkbiotech.org /root/index.cfm?fuseaction=news&doc_id=7537&start=51&control=200&page_start=1&page_nr=101&pg=1 (775 words)

	Turf war -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Turf war is a term that describes a common problem in larger (Click link for more info and facts about companies) companies when two divisions fight for access to (Available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed) resources or capital.
		They usually break out due to improper (The act of managing something) management further up the corporate (A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system) hierarchy.
		It can also be described as contention for any resource between two or more parties resulting in (The act of opposing groups confronting each other) confrontation
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tu/turf_war.htm (112 words)

	Turf War Rages in Washington Over Who Will Rule Iraq
		The Bush administration was scrambling to finalize an interim government for post-war Iraq yesterday, amid a turf war pitting the Pentagon and the Vice-President's office against the State Department and Congress in Washington.
		Mr Rumsfeld, in an attempt to outmaneuver the State Department, which is deeply suspicious of Mr Chalabi, sent memos to President George Bush urging that an interim government led by exile leaders be set up in coalition- controlled southern Iraq, irrespective of what happened in Baghdad.
		The quarrelling in Washington is also an increasing concern to neutral Iraqi figures, who see it not only as a distraction from the task of rebuilding, but as a sign that, for all the assurances to the contrary, Washington does indeed have neo-colonialist designs.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0405-02.htm (973 words)

	Turf War
		Turf War: The Conflict Between Chechen and Russian Nationalism
		Russian Nationalism works to convince the people with a compelling argument in terms of collective Russian ethnic superiority, minority moral and ethnic inferiority and a clear threat on the scale of Nazi Germany.
		Tying the perceived cultural inferiority and religious stereotypes together, former Vice-President Alexsander Rutskoi reportedly said to the now-deceased Chechen President Johar Dudayev in 1991 "all of you here are bandits and Muslim fundamentalists" (Malashenko).
	www.msu.edu /user/jir/turf_war.htm (1218 words)

	Wausau - Slow down, consider all possibilities in turf war
		But muscle strains and similar injuries were far more prevalent on turf, kids took longer to heal from those injuries, and injury rates on turf climbed dramatically as temperatures rose above 70 degrees.
		Furthermore, turf requires special shoes, which translates to another $50 or $75 for the parents of Everest athletes - and the parents of every visiting team's player.
		It seems turf fans have taken this ball and run with it before considering all possible ramifications of going artificial.
	www.wausaudailyherald.com /wdhopinion/282698798096792.shtml (605 words)

	Bulletin - Turf war strategies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There is no plan to return ASIO’s staff to its Cold War level, despite the threat the nation faces.
		And, to increase counter-terrorism capability, the organisation has had to wind down its counter-intelligence (that is, spycatching) operations.
		But – as has been pointed out, again by Beazley – Australia is spending a smaller proportion of GDP on defence now than it did 20 years ago.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/eddesk.nsf/All/F1A07483D4B01728CA256D7F000DE19E (929 words)

	Israpundit: Turf War
		In an article entitled Iran-contra Amplified, Asia Times describes a turf war going on in Washington.
		It seems that the hawks lead by Cheney, Wolfowitz, Libby and Perle, are conducting their own foreign policy much to the chagrin of the...
		It seems that the hawks lead by Cheney, Wolfowitz, Libby and Perle, are conducting their own foreign policy much to the chagrin of the State Department.
	israpundit.com /archives/2003/08/turf_war.php (480 words)

	The Rumsfeld Intelligence Agency - How the hawks plan to find a Saddam/al-Qaida connection. By Fred Kaplan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rumsfeld has publicly continued to push this link as a prime—or at least the most easily sellable—rationale for going to war with Iraq, even after the CIA and the Pentagon's own Defense Intelligence Agency have dismissed the connection as tenuous at best.
		Yet once allowed an institutional footing, the Team B players presented their conclusions—and leaked them to friendly reporters—as the truth, which the pro-detente administration was trying to hide.
		Fred Kaplan is the Boston Globe's New York bureau chief, its former military correspondent, and the author of The Wizards of Armageddon.
	slate.msn.com /default.aspx?id=2073238 (1226 words)

	Florida "synthetic turf war" gets national coverage - Landscape Management
		They want the turf removed because they are concerned that the synthetic turf's rubber pellets are an environmental hazard.
		In the meantime, the city council and planning board are drafting an amendment to the landscape code to specifically ban synthetic landscaping.
		There are at least two other homes in the city that have synthetic turf lawns that may have been installed before the city's incorporation in 1997.
	landscapemanagement.net /landscape/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=141763 (334 words)

	Donations make for turf war
		Many synthetic turf projects, including Beechwood's, are funded entirely by private donations from athletic boosters.
		This spring, opponents of a tax increase in Fort Thomas did use the new turf at Highlands High School to question the district's priorities.
		But he wouldn't want the community to think that academics in general should be paid for by "special interest groups" of parents, as with the athletic boosters and synthetic turf.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/07/05/loc_turf05.html (801 words)

	icSouthlondon - Turf war blamed for cocklers drama
		A turf war between rival cockle gangs was blamed for a collision between two tractor vehicles that left more than 140 cockle pickers stranded four miles from shore.
		A major rescue operation was launched with hovercrafts, helicopters and lifeboats scrambled to take the two groups of cocklers to safety at Morecambe Bay in Lancashire.
		Janet Butler, who runs a shellfish business in Newbiggin where the rescue took place, said a turf war had broken out between rival cockle gangs in the area.
	icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/nationalnews/tm_objectid=14508124&method=full&siteid=50100&headline=turf-war-blamed-for-cocklers-drama-name_page.html (311 words)

	Mafia turf war scars Naples - The Washington Times: World Briefings - January 16, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The war widened this month to the central Forcella district of the port city as gunmen murdered Camorra clan boss Edoardo Bove, just hours after Italy's President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi toured the Scampia neighborhood where 44 persons were slain last year.
		The Bove killing was carried out by a hit man who was evidently on good terms with the victim's family, because he talked his way past relatives to gain access to the drug kingpin's fortified bunker at home before gunning him down with three head shots from a pistol, the sources said.
		Cortese as a "messenger of death," who passed on to hit men the order by Camorra dons to murder Gelsomina Verde, 20, a young woman without a criminal record who was gunned down as a warning to gangsters with whom she had been friendly.
	washingtontimes.com /world/20050115-102144-8457r.htm (871 words)

	Turf war ruffles wealthy Marco Islanders
		Ehlen's turf war and his pink protest wall quickly drew attention far beyond Marco Island.
		There are now about 30 companies selling a variety of synthetic turfs, which even natural-grass aficionados concede are often more attractive and "playable" than ever before, said Grady Miller, a "turfgrass" scientist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
		Henry Julicher, chief executive officer of Pennsylvania-based Sprinturf, which manufactured Ehlen's "LawnScape" grass, describes it as "the safest turf on Earth." Both the synthetic grass and the rubber infill are nontoxic, he said.
	www.ccfj.net /HOAFLfaketurf.html (977 words)

	Drug Turf War Hits Cancun
		The Guardian - UK The tourist haven of Cancun, on Mexico's Caribbean coast, is being shaken by a turf war between two drug cartels.
		According to law enforcement officials, drug traffickers are competing to control routes for shipping Colombian cocaine north towards the US market.
		His rival appears to be the Gulf cartel, which reportedly is controlled by its long-time chief, Osiel Cardenas, who was jailed last year.
	www.rense.com /general60/cancun.htm (221 words)

	SWI Forums -> Hacker Turf War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A new worm war may be brewing, the head of Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs' research efforts said Friday.
		The battle is shaping up between rival cyber gangs over the newest turf, infectable PCs.
		Kaspersky said there's evidence that this turf tussle is already underway.
	forums.spywareinfo.com /index.php?showtopic=43576 (371 words)

	TURF WAR: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Indeed, victory in the turf war over NI policy went to those officials who were not merely politically, but personally, committed to successful American engagement.
		’s early activism lost the turf war in large part because losing did not matter enough to them.
		The turf war within his administration over this new policy is examined from a number of angles (in Chapter 4) before considering (in Chapter 5) why the White House won and the State Department lost.
	www2.bc.edu /~lynchtq/webintro.htm (1739 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Environmentalists are in turf war
		Many of the same wilderness advocates of the Utah Bureau of Land Management wars are gearing up for another fight — saving the forests in Utah.
		It could become even nastier, however, since the battlefield is on another environmental group's turf — Utah Environmental Congress.
		UFN just wanted to draw on more political power by bringing in lifelong veterans of the wilderness wars, he added.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595094015,00.html (846 words)

	Marco Island resident in artificial turf war with city (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MARCO ISLAND - A Marco Island resident is engaged in a turf war -- artificial turf, that is.
		They want the turf gone and are even going so far as to change the city landscaping code to keep it from happening again.
		For now, however, the city won't grant Ehlen a certificate of occupancy that allows him to move in until his plastic grass is removed.
	www.wfts.com /stories/2005/01/050103marcoisle.shtml (191 words)

	Turf war is over (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Union sports minister Vikram Verma called an emergency meeting of senior officials, including Director-General of SAI JP Singh, to review the condition of the turf at the National Stadium which hosts the Asia Cup for women from Sunday.
		The report — ‘To clean astroturf, use Surf’ published on Thursday — said that the turf at the National Stadium had to be cleaned manually by groundsmen, using detergent, since SAI had no other provision for their maintenance.
		The turf, installed only two years ago, hadn’t hosted any tournament so far but bears fl stains all over and an uneven bounce because of repairs carried out in various places.
	www.indianexpress.com /archive_full_story.php?content_id=40152 (214 words)

	Turf War!
		Paragon City's gangs are locked in fierce turf wars that threaten many areas of the city.
		The Hellions are evidently supported by the Circle of Thorns, who are presumably fueling the gang's war against the Tsoo.
		It's possible that the Freakshow is also at war with the Trolls given that the Family supports the Trolls.
	home1.gte.net /res71atq/id95.html (153 words)

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