Word: breeder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...oversaw the sale of William Randolph Hearst's fabled art collection) and family tragedies, including a jail term for his Communist father, his own messy divorces, and manslaughter charges deflected by his son, who pleaded self-defense. In blunt and trenchantly funny prose, Hammer portrays himself as a bumbling breeder of prize cattle, an accidental oil millionaire -- yet, always, a consummate wheeler-dealer, which nobody can deny...
...husband Clarence have for the most part been cattle ranchers in Midland, Texas. But her father Fred Turner Jr. was a devout horse lover who had Derby Winner Tomy Lee (Bill Shoemaker's old friend) in 1959. Another return to glory amounted to an end to laughter: the breeder of Alysheba is Preston Madden of Lexington's Hamburg Place, the hors d'oeuvres center of the bluegrass. During the first 25 years of this century, John E. Madden was known as the "wizard of the turf." He bred five Derby winners, including Sir Barton. But the grandson Preston...
...gasps began at Sotheby's on Nov. 10, when Jasper John's Out the Window sold for $3.6 million, the highest sum ever paid for the work of a living artist. Last week the old master drawings owned by John Ryan Gaines, a Kentucky horse breeder and the son of the founder of the Gaines dog-food company, fetched $21 million. The top seller: Leonardo da Vinci's Child with a Lamb, a group of sketches in brown ink, which was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., for $3.6 million...
Proliferation invokes atavistic fears and uncertainties because it involves arcane and highly sophisticated technologies: breeder reactors, plutonium reprocessing plants, uranium-enrichment facilities.* Says Leonard Weiss, an expert on the U.S. Senate staff: "Proliferation is a set of symptoms with a number of causes. It is both a political and technical problem. Therefore no single cure, or set of cures, will work...
...turn uranium into nuclear fuel, or bomb-grade material, exist in the U.S., the Soviet Union, the Netherlands, France and China. Commercial reprocessing plants to extract plutonium from used reactor fuel are located or planned in France, Britain, West Germany, Japan, India and the Soviet Union. Programs involving breeder reactors are under way in the Soviet Union, India, France, West Germany and Japan. (In 1983, the U.S. canceled its $4 billion Clinch River breeder facility, located at Oak Ridge, Tenn., because of long construction delays, steep cost increases and a declining need for additional nuclear power installations...