Word: homestead
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...Harvard baseball team will open its annual trip to the Homestead Challenge with a re-match against budding arch-rival Oklahoma State today...
...Crimson (2-2) dropped an emotional 8-6 decision last year at Homestead to the Cowboys, and it also lost 10-7 in the Midwest Regional of the NCAA Tournament...
Billie and Ed Miles, two former San Antonio school administrators, moved to New Braunfels in 1992 to open a B&B as a "small retirement project." Today they run the Gruene Homestead Inn, a collection of eight restored buildings in one of the town's historic neighborhoods. "This is a very warm and open community," says Billie, attributing that openness to the region's tourism. "This is like a small town, and you don't feel like you are stuck in a senior-citizen's community...
...clashed, however, with the brute realities of his steel mills, where men toiled 12-hour days, seven days a week. If Carnegie fancied himself the friend of the workingman, he had to face the ultimate comeuppance in 1892 when his associate Henry Clay Frick brutally suppressed striking workers in Homestead, Pa., in the bloodiest clash in U.S. labor history...
...days of real industrial titans like Henry Clay Frick, recalcitrant employees could simply be killed, as they were by Frick's actions during the Homestead strike. Or spied on in their homes, as they were by Henry Ford. What good is having power if you can't abuse...