Word: graze
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Like many independent oilmen, Pickens was born within sight of working wells. He grew up in Holdenville, Okla. (pop. 6,300), a cow town surrounded by pastures, where cattle graze alongside active oil pumps. An only child, Pickens was raised on a street of white clapboard houses and green lawns. The family is fond of tracing its ancestry back to the same part of England that produced a distant kinsman, Daniel Boone...
HOLSTEINS. Dairy cattle graze on some of America's lushest farm land. Investors buy cattle from places like Stookey Hoisteins, Inc., in Leesburg, Ind., which advertises in publications like Wealthbuilding. Then gains start flowing. First, the investment, over a five-year depreciation period, counts as an "off the top" deduction in the same way as savings in an Individual Retirement Account. It thus lowers the investor's taxable earnings. Next, 10% of what the investor pays for the livestock comes directly off his taxes. Also, through embryo transplants, each cow becomes a factory for calves, which...
...Bluebird Stadium, the scoreboard does not zap, crackle and pop; an unseen hand changes the goose eggs each inning. No Astro-Turf here; cows graze on the infield in anticipation of Farm Night, when the ballplayers have a hand at milking them. The team is a collection of youths on the way up and burned-out cases on the way down. There is the hot prospect (Patrick Cassidy) who is a terror in the outfield and a bed wetter at home. And the hick pitcher (Barry Tubbs) who appears to get height sickness when he climbs the pitcher...
...American West, most any plot of land big enough to graze a goat or nurture an apple tree is called a ranch. But by any standards, William Clark's 880-acre spread in California's San Luis Obispo County qualifies. His rolling land has few trees and is more of a barley than a cattle operation. It is surrounded by much larger ranches, which protect the judge's property from encroachment by commercial developers. His air and water are relatively clean...
Once an agreement was reached in March, the negotiators began lobbying local Chambers of Commerce, county commissioners, and ranchers who graze cattle on the strip. In Washington, the measure has strong bipartisan support and is expected to pass both the Senate and the House in this session. One index of its acceptability: a leading sponsor is Arizona Democrat Bob Stump, who has never voted for a wilderness bill during his seven years in the House...