Word: jim
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Twenty miles southwest of Scottsbluff, Jim Wyatt, 41, who has already stripped his fields of everything but baked, brown grass, is hoping he can find enough scrub weed in neighbors' pastures to feed his cattle. Others have sold entire herds for pennies a pound. "If you can't feed them, you can't keep them," says Wyatt. Dry-land farmers, who either can't afford the expensive irrigation water or live too far out to be able to use it, are in even worse shape...
...Cover Girl and Max Factor lines are enjoying banner sales with the introduction of their Outlast and Lipfinity long-lasting lipsticks. Of course, the success of cosmetics and other beauty products depends much more on fashion and sex appeal than do sales of toilet paper. As AllianceBernstein analyst Jim Gingrich notes, "P&G still has things to learn about how to market products where benefits are more intangible...
...Mitt Romney remains the lone Republican candidate in the gubernatorial race, but two candidates—Kerry M. Healey ’82 and Jim Rappaport—are contending for the lieutenant gubernatorial position...
...really respect Jim Rappaport for going to the grass-roots of the party here in Boston and state-wide,” he says. “But I and most Republicans feel that Kerry Murphy Healy would be the best addition to the ticket in terms of the general election...
...authors, new and established, being published. Also featuring in this year's rentrée are the prolific and ingenious Amélie Nothomb, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Yann Queffélec and Nina Bouraoui. Foreign translations - a significant part of French publishing output - include new books by Nadine Gordimer, Jim Harrison, V.S. Naipaul and Jonathan Franzen. All that ensures enough quality and variety for returning vacationers to read themselves out of any rentrée blues...