Word: grounds
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...payments. Emmett's grandson Dean, 30, then tried to save the family holdings by buying 3,000 acres back at auction--but stands to lose them again because the siege has prevented him from getting last year's wheat crop to market or this year's crop in the ground. Last fall, when Dean tried to retrieve stored wheat from the silos at his grandfather's [foreclosed] farm, his father Richard, 47--who later turned himself in and is now in jail awaiting trial on Freemen-related charges--chased him off at gunpoint...
...Edward Barnes of the Protestant delegates who walked out. "Part of this is showmanship. They're trying to consolidate their position as extremists who aren't going to go along with everything." Even if the delegates do return, negotiators have a long way to go to find any common ground. "They will be locked in their battle over every point," says Barnes. British Prime Minister John Major, Irish Prime Minister John Bruton and delegates from seven parties remain at the talks. While the majority Protestants prefer strong ties with Britain, the Catholics seek the independence the rest of Ireland secured...
...Edward Barnes of the Protestant delegates who walked out. "Part of this is showmanship. They're trying to consolidate their position as extremists who aren't going to go along with everything." Even if the delegates do return, negotiators have a long way to go to find any common ground. "They will be locked in their battle over every point," says Barnes. British Prime Minister John Major, Irish Prime Minister John Bruton and delegates from seven parties remain at the talks. While the majority Protestants prefer strong ties with Britain, the Catholics seek the independence the rest of Ireland secured...
After belatedly bowing to international pressure to stop its nuclear testing, China is showing signs of giving ground on copyright piracy, its surliest trade dispute with the U.S. Unless Beijing cracks down on pirated products, as it promised to do under an international accord in 1995, the U.S. will impose record trade sanctions on $2 billion worth of Chinese clothing and electronic goods by June 17. Acting U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky said Tuesday that that China has closed some factories that were producing pirated computer programs, movies and music, but that Beijing must take "further concrete and verifiable action...
...wild cloud formation appeared about half a mile to the west. Great white fingers developed from the left and right and flowed quickly toward a black, horizontally rolling cloud, which lifted to reveal a huge, whirling black vortex coming straight at me. I threw myself to the ground but couldn't help watching. The outside of the tornado was spinning so fast my eye couldn't follow it, but the inside was rotating almost lazily. I could see a thousand feet up inside it. Tiny fingers of lightning lined the hollow tube. The tornado grew until it covered three-quarters...