Meanwhile institutional frailties and turf wars between competing intelligence agencies add to the difficulties.
But setting off ferocious turf wars by reshuffling organizational boxes will not correct our intelligence-gathering flaws.
Sportexe's interactive field is merely the latest salvo in the escalating artificial turf wars.
While lawyers fight their turf wars, another set of service firms has taken consolidation much further.
The result was a campaign of civil disobedience and an outbreak of turf wars.
And, to be fair, there are real conflicts of interest (besides potential turf wars) between the two.
Won't the arrival of a prima donna at Foggy Bottom make these turf wars even worse than usual?
Meanwhile Hamas has redirected its energy inward, setting off turf wars for control of business in the strip.
They end up paying for what is predominantly a distribution system with inefficiencies and duplication (and often turf wars).
Turf wars are real, and he was coming from Binghampton, a rival hood.
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They're concerned about a reshuffling of regulatory powers as the crisis continues, and about turf wars between the agencies.
These debates over policy are inseparable from the turf wars between the European institutions and between the various governments.
This can be good, in that it may avoid long-standing bureaucratic turf wars.
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Although some of these men have fallen victim to drug-fuelled turf wars, alcohol appears to be a more important trigger.
But turf wars and hiding intelligence from somebody else was, again, not exactly unknown before the creation of the DNI.
Regular media reports were filed on the so-called "turf wars" between Dr Reid and the late first minister Donald Dewar.
The union also warns the move would expose students to gang violence and turf wars, an apparent reference to neighborhood loyalties.
The city's affluence has spawned turf wars between rival gangs, especially over control of the booming market in amphetamines and other drugs.
As we've continued this recovery effort, I've made it clear that we're not going to tolerate the usual turf wars between agencies.
The union also had warned that the move would expose students to gang violence and turf wars, an apparent reference to neighborhood loyalties.
With the significance of patents in the online turf wars exploding, no one can afford to be too passive in asserting rights.
Its primary objective has moved beyond conducting turf wars inside jails or propagating racist ideology, however, into running a ruthless Mafia-style organised crime network.
Similarly, as I pointed out in The Damnable Politics of Regulation, the counter-productive turf wars among and between competing regulators and prosecutors must cease.
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Incorporating scientists into the world of aggressive marketing and quarterly earnings forecasts is hard enough without going through the turf wars that accompany a large-scale merger.
Great ideas dry up and go away (underground or to other enterprises), and great execution evaporates, a victim of turf wars, unclear direction, self-protectiveness and lack of accountability.
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The Treasury resisted the temptation to propose a single super-regulator along the lines of Britain's Financial Services Authority, leaving itself open to criticism that turf wars will persist.
The stiffest resistance to change is coming not from Wall Street but from Washington, DC, where government officials, regulators and congressional leaders are locked in turf wars and ideological battles.
These social media turf wars are getting really annoying!
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By multiplying our combined resources and thereby avoiding dysfunctional "turf wars, " we have better fulfilled our mandate to protect the American people and made better use of the resources they have given to us.
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