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...poor timing of a Texas drought: "The dry spell continues to grip much of the District. Wheat and oat crops are suffering from lack of moisture. Grazing conditions are poor as well...Hay stocks are low and feed costs remain high, forcing some ranchers to cull their herds. District dairy producers report weak conditions...
NASCAR has already aggressively trimmed expenses. Like many companies, teams have turned to layoffs: 600 to 800 workers from Sprint Cup teams have been let go since the end of last season. "It has served to cull the flock," says Steve Kalik, a team manager for Specialty Racing in NASCAR's second-tier Nationwide series. NASCAR also banned testing prior to Daytona and during the season, essentially R&D time for the cars at its sanctioned tracks for the 2009 season. France estimates the ban will save teams $30 million. (See pictures of custom big rigs...
...Garlasco, Maleeha Lodhi, and Barnett R. Rubin addressed a packed auditorium yesterday afternoon in a panel discussion moderated by Harvard Kennedy School professor Samantha Power. “It is literally true that the U.S. government does not have a joint-operating plan in Afghanistan,” said Cull, who heads the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy think tank. He went on to state that the Obama administration will work to fashion one. “Presumably better to have a joint strategy than to have none at all,” he said. Rubin, the director...
Trout-Fishing As a recreational trout fisherman for some years, and a regular visitor to the Dullstroom waters referred to in Alex Perry's article "The Cull of the Wild," I must take issue [Oct.27]. It is rainbow trout, not brown trout, that are the dominant species in most dams and rivers throughout Mpumalanga. Secondly, as both species almost never breed in still water such as dams, these dams (as well as most fished rivers) have to be stocked on a regular basis on a "put and take" basis. Stocking is an expensive exercise, and usually the club or farmer...
...found it difficult to work with Bill, and I mentioned it in my autobiography. So I was invited to participate in his roast on Comedy Central a few years back. When the press asked if Bill was going to be invited to our wedding, we said we had to cull the list down to 200. So the press went on to assume Bill was not going to be invited. But we wanted to be as inclusive as possible, so we shoehorned him onto our list and he was sent an invitation. But we got no response to the RSVP...