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The New York Times lead states that the "consumer" health-care laws (the scare-quotes are supplied by the Times ) being discussed in state capitals tend to focus more on protecting "the incomes, jobs and turf of the health-care system's biggest and richest vested interests," namely, specialist physicians and managed-care plans.
Recalling the Goldwater-Nichols legislation of 1986, Secretary Rumsfeld reminded us that to achieve better joint capability, each of the armed services had to "give up some of their turf and authorities and prerogatives."
Questions of business and commerce are not neglected in this guide, from the most basic rural matters ( pick-up “agricultural equipment for the collection and storage of lucerne, hay, etc.”--the hay being made, no doubt, from ray-grass “a sort of English turf”) to the abstractions of high finance.
Control of each little bit of turf, physical or virtual, can always be made a bit more--or a bit less--personal and private.
.. a descendant of Adriaen van Bergen, part owner of the famous turf boat in which a party of Dutch troops were clandestinely introduced in the year 1599 into the castle of that city.”