This turf dispute is not the first between the school and the authority.

He recounts his turf disputes while enacting reforms such as canceling the $11 billion Crusader artillery platform.

Without being specific, he complained about turf disputes.

But the agency is caught in a turf dispute that has nothing to do with ecology and everything to do with the future permanent home of the European Parliament.

The association buildings were also the places where tong leaders met to resolve turf disputes and occasionally to plan joint criminal ventures, prosecutors said.

An AOL Time Warner executive said yesterday that there had apparently been some turf disputes within the Justice Department over the inquiry.

At the time, the police said Mr. Rivas was an unintended victim in what was probably a turf dispute between drug dealers.

The killing stemmed, in part, from a turf dispute, Mr. Christie said.

The result shattered the fragile coalition by which AIDS organizations had managed to rise above occasional policy disagreements, turf disputes and competition for money.

One man from a rival gang was shot in the head in a turf dispute, and survived "by a miracle" because a bullet shattered against his skull, he said.