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...particularly poignant with the family ranchers, not the King Ranch of almost 1 million oil- rich Texas acres or the Mormon church's Deseret Ranch in Florida, which runs 34,000 head of cattle. The big combines will survive. But the little guys are in jeopardy, a thin denim line of about 250,000 from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, leasing in varying amounts about 280 million acres of mountain and high desert range from the U.S. government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Fence Us In | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

Then he shows me the "Vintage Denim" or "Classic Rags"--euphemisms for second hand Levis. This "authentic recycled clothing" will set you back...

Author: By Geoffrey J. Hoffman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Bargain Hunting's Knight Errant | 1/13/1993 | See Source »

When the students enter the lab, they see the cadavers set up on metal tables. The bodies are covered first with layers of plastic and material to keep them moist, and then with a blue denim-like cloth. A metal bucket at the end of the table collects the excess formaldehyde that drains from the body. "Sometimes [the bucket] seems like it's getting a little full," says Elbert Huang...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Gross Anatomy at Harvard Medical School: | 11/7/1992 | See Source »

...They see Blacks as no-good savages in baggy denim jeans," says Romel Augustin, a senior at Rindge and Latin...

Author: By June Shih, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Black Teens Charge Police With Harassment | 10/14/1992 | See Source »

...morning I visit Felix and the battered radio is tuned to a Greek station broadcasting out of Lynn. Felix wears black wool pants, a short-sleeved office shirt open at the collar, anonymous black shoes, and a blue denim smock smudged with glue stains. He is rebuilding the worn toe of a woman's two-hundred-dollar cobalt-blue Salvatore Ferragamo...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: Fixing Shoes the Old Fashioned Way | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

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