Word: conrade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loss of price supports will cause land rents to fall, which will lower the cost of farming and could encourage younger people to get into agriculture. Another is that an end to obsolete limits on production will better position trade-savvy farmers to compete in markets overseas. Democrat Kent Conrad has warned of a "disaster" if the cuts are indiscriminate. But Bill Pietsch, vice president of the North Dakota Farm Bureau in Fargo, a Republican-tilted outfit, puts it this way: "Our people will swear. We expect our Senators to swear. But as these payments are reduced, most of North...
...TAYLOR WAS WED TO HOTELIER Conrad N. Hilton for eight months, as your chart indicated, then how come that wasn't brought out back in 1951 during her well-publicized divorce from Conrad's son C. Nicholson (Nicky) Hilton Jr.? Could this explain why Hilton Sr. titled his 1957 memoir Be My Guest...
Demonizing the Alps, however, was far from universal. The naturalist Conrad Gesner, who climbed Mons Pilatus in 1555 to disprove its diabolic reputation, thought of the Alps as the "work of the Sovereign Architect." To 19th century Romantics, the Swiss mountains were symbols of virtue, and the herdsmen who dwelt there paradigms of primitive democracy. Thus the Alps through history have been rather like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates: you never know what meaning you'll find inside them...
...giving rise to it." He also pursued a low-key campaign of quiet calls to wavering Democrats, offering them a chance to sit down with Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Budget Director Alice Rivlin to work through the numbers. Says one White House adviser: "The last thing Senator Conrad wanted was the President's calling him up and pressuring...
...votes to pass it in the Senate. The amendment must then be ratified by three-fourths of the states. All but one of the 53 Senate Republicans support the amendment. Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) is opposed. Others who remain undecided are Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Wendell Ford (D-Ky.) and John Breaux...