Word: herd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...achieving at the local level and assess how much they might be missed. Says National Editor John Elson, who edited the story: "We found a wide range of responses, including some that were not anticipated by the Administration. It is already clear that Reagan is going after a whole herd of sacred cows. The battle brewing in the Congress will be fascinating...
Reagan, meanwhile, receives the Italian Foreign Minister, Emilio Colombo. It is a courtesy call; Colombo has already talked business with Richard Allen and Secretary of State Alexander Haig. As Reagan and Colombo make small talk, there is a "photo opportunity": a herd of photographers and TV crews bursts into the room, cameras blazing, and leaves a few moments later...
Like his parents, Hanson still butchers his own meat for family meals, heats herd house with wood, and uses cowboys on horseback to trail his herd down a the summer ranges. But now he rides in a Ford pickup, with a CB radio crackling away. He relies on machines - swathers, balers and stackers - to get the hay in. He is constantly on the phone to his accountant in Helena, and spends hours hunched over the kitchen table with his pocket calculator. "Ranching is a lot, lot more than raising cattle nowadays," says Hanson. "It involves accounting, mechanics, sophisticated farming...
...concern or nonconcern about Ted Bundy. Larson's fearfulness to speculate at all about what constructed Bundy's grim mechanism, his complete unwillingness to risk saying anything amounts not just to mediocrity but immorality--a failure of nerve typical of the quiet neutrality of American society's herd spectatorship...
...also written a dozen volumes about the Chantrys and the Talons, two other hard-riding families linked to the Sacketts by marriage. The latest L'Amour western omelet is highly seasoned and full of natural ingredients: the proud, individualistic Sackett brothers, Tell, Orrin and Tyrel, drive a herd from Colorado to Canada, answering an urgent call for help from Cousin Logan. On the winding trail they deal with Indians (mostly good), women (aggressively virtuous), rustlers (as mean as copperheads), plus a menagerie of grizzlies, wolves, giant mosquitoes and the customary herd of bison. In addition, there are two elaborate...