Word: herds
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...when I showed up at Raratu Lodge, near Havelock North on North Island, ready to get down to the ranch and shear some sheep, proprietor Pete Hill was quietly amused. Forget New Zealand's shepherding heritage?nothing could get him to herd sheep, even if he had any. "Field lice," as he called them, were far too stupid and too prone to disease. Seeing my city slicker's crushed expression, he did offer me the chance to douse a few of his dairy cows with a de-worming bath, but the intermittent late summer showers ruled that...
...country lass from Scotland. She spent each August at the Castle of Mey, listening to her bagpipe records and fishing for salmon with Prince Charles. Sometimes she would simply tramp through the rain, chatting with the locals. Once, it is said, she noticed a farmhand struggling to herd his lambs into a pen. Instantly she clambered over a stone wall to help out. It seemed, she later said, the neighborly thing...
...being the commander - the man quietly placing and arranging American combat boots on the ground in Afghanistan with a mission to herd, trap and finish off thousands of hardened Al-Qaeda fighters - Army Gen. Tommy Franks is TIME.com's Person of the Week. You just don't see him much...
...above 10,000 in December and January on hopeful corporate and economic news - only to run into Enronitis. Now they're back at it, and even if the next few sessions take some of the steam out - there's always profit-taking and second-guessing, even when herd is celebrating - the cries of "bottom," for the economy and the markets, have never been so credible. The future's so bright, they're buying...
...company is very interested in Harvard’s vision for the area. If Harvard located research facilities in Allston, it would likely attract further development, Doherty says. It’s the magnet effect, he says—once a critical mass has been built up, the herd of biotech firms will descend...