Word: cowboy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the recent election campaign, Barrow referred to Ronald Reagan as a "cowboy" who "cannot speak without the use of a TelePrompTer." Most observers thought the outcome would be close. But when the vote was counted last week, Barrow's Democratic Labor Party had won 24 of the 27 seats in Parliament. Despite the outcome, the U.S. expected little change in its relations with the island nation...
...sheepmen gathered at dusk outside the meeting hall in Mertzon, Texas. They wore cowboy hats (each hat distinctive, matching the weathered face) and belt buckles the size of a Roman's shield. They stood in dusty boots on the scrubby grass and drank strong black coffee out of plastic cups as the night came on. The ranchers bantered in the sidelong West Texas way, good-humored insult frisking and woofing just at the edges of the talk, like a sheepdog nipping at the fleecier pleasantries. But shadows moved across the landscape...
...sesquicentennial, a wagon train has slowly been making its way around the state--some 40 mule-drawn and horse-drawn wagons escorted by horsemen. Its 3,000-mile progress, traversing a hugely diverse geography, dramatizes the complexity of Texas. The state cannot be contained in one image: the cowboy, or the oilman, say. Geographically, climatically, economically, sociologically, Texas is at least five different entities: 1) east Texas, with its piney woods and swamps and large black population, a territory like the Old South; 2) south Texas, with its enormous Hispanic population, a borderland as much Mexican as American; 3) West...
...This virus presents a plethora of targets because it's not a simple retrovirus. The more we know about it, the more complicated it is," Haseltine says. "It's like the difference between a cowboy's coffee not and an expresso maker: they both make coffee, but one comes with all those bells and whistles, so it's a lot easier to mess up. [The AIDS virus] comes with a lot of genetic baggage which might provide theraputic targets...
Calvin Worthington, 65, a Los Angeles auto dealer, wears a cowboy hat in his ads and parades around a car lot with animals ranging from pigs and tigers to hippos and elephants, each of whom he refers to as "my dog Spot." Wayne Greenstein, 32, and Brother Marc, 34, whose family owns Coronet juvenile furniture in Westbury, N.Y., have appeared in commercials since 1980. One of their popular spots features the Greensteins sitting in baby cribs and musing about a "talking orangutan." Customers routinely barge into Coronet demanding to see the TV stars, and trendy Manhattan nightclubs such as Danceteria...