Word: collin
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Grunwald was right about all that is wrong with farm subsidies. Let's hope that he's wrong about the prospects for eliminating them--that citizens will wake up and demand they be halted. Contrary to the fears of House members Nancy Pelosi and Collin Peterson, a large number of rural voters get it that subsidies are killing their communities. The failure of reform in the House and Senate shows once again who really runs this country's agriculture: the likes of Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland. Shame on the reform-minded organizations that gave up and settled for crumbs...
...meat is murder"--vowed to deliver it. The moment seemed ripe for Democrats to challenge the status quo. Agribusiness was steering two-thirds of its campaign donations to Republicans, and just 19 of the 435 congressional districts were vacuuming up half of all subsidies. Still, House Agriculture Committee chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota had a warning for Kind. "I told him, 'Ron, you're a good guy, but you're way out of your league here,'" Peterson told TIME. "I knew we were going to kick his butt...
Other notables include a pair of defensive backs. Collin Zych from Plano, Texas, has a twin brother who committed to the University of Texas, while John Fahnenstiel from North Muskegon, Mich. placed third in SPARQ (a measurement of speed, power, reaction, agility and quickness) rating at the annual Clemson Nike Camp last May. The SPARQ rating weighs and combines a player’s 40-yard dash, 20-yard shuffle, vertical jump and bench press into a single number intended to measure overall athleticism...
...they probably are not the most respectable college students on the planet. And Caldwell is correct to conclude that she cannot, from available data, ascertain their moral character. But that would be true of any people unknown to Caldwell. Why, in the case of Dave Evans, Reade Seligman, and Collin Finnerty, is it appropriate to speculate that they might be “sketchy?...
...they probably are not the most respectable college students on the planet. And Caldwell is correct to conclude that she cannot, from available data, ascertain their moral character. But that would be true of any people unknown to Caldwell. Why, in the case of Dave Evans, Reade Seligman, and Collin Finnerty, is it appropriate to speculate that they might be “sketchy?...