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Although the NLRB decided this case in 1977, its description of the student-teacher relationship has not applied since the days when the Boylston Professor of English exercised his right to graze a cow in the Yard...
...review knocked Clifford Hansen, former Wyoming Governor and Senator, out of the Cabinet. At midweek he seemed certain to be Secretary of the Interior; at week's end he suddenly removed himself from consideration. The key factor was that Hansen's wife and daughter have permits to graze cattle in Grand Teton National Park, which is run by the Interior Department. Said Hansen: "I presume we'd have to forgo using the permits, and that would put us out of business...
Washington has a great say over who gets how much of the waters of the Colorado River, and what will be charged for the right to graze cattle. Washington decides how much timber will be cut from the forests and who will mine gold on the land...
...time, this was all open range," the white-haired man says, gazing north across the valley. Now the land is crisscrossed with his neighbors' fences. "You used to just turn the cattle loose and let them graze where they wanted for the summer. No more, not ever again...
...procession of caravans making its way up from the south. Through the 60-mile Bolan Pass in the Brahui mountains they come, nomadic families with their camels, sheep, donkeys, the beasts of burden laden with all their possessions. They march by day and camp at sundown while the animals graze on the stony, barren soil. Many will settle around Quetta for the summer: raising sheep, taking day jobs weeding the cultivated fields in the area...