Word: nebraska
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...that doesn’t make sense, since we don’t discriminate as a organization, and we want to garner women with whatever knowledge we can.” The talk was the latest in a series of events with prominent entrepreneurs, including an October trip to Nebraska to meet America’s second richest person, Warren Buffett, and a meeting last April with NBC Universal CEO Jeffrey A. Zucker ’86, who is also a former Crimson president. —Nicholas A. Ciani can be reached at nciani@fas.harvard.edu...
...young man, Jimmy Winter of Omaha, Nebraska, even broke his knee while playing the popular music game “Guitar Hero,” a form of “shredaoke” in which players use a special guitar-shaped controller to rock out along with their favorite songs, as reported in a Dec. 9, 2005 New York Times article...
...nation's major pig-producing states are North Carolina, Iowa and Nebraska. Arizona has only one industrial pork operation, Pigs for Farmer John, a subsidiary of Hormel Foods Corp., which ships a quarter-million animals to slaughter each year and houses, on any given day, about 13,500 pregnant sows. The gestation crates, according to a spokesman for Pigs for Farmer John, keep the sows safe from other pigs and allow individual feeding and care. Prop 204 opponents, led by Jim Klinker of the Arizona Farm Bureau Federation, have erected billboards around the state dissing the initiative as "hogwash." Outside...
...time. Promising that his Republicans will hold both the House and the Senate on Tuesday, the President used Air Force One to hopscotch the Sun Belt and Midwest as he closed out a campaign that could determine whether he spends the next two years on offense or defense. In Nebraska on Sunday, Bush grabbed one of the yellow, corncob-shaped hats worn by supporters and held it up for the cameras, delighting a packed rodeo arena decked with "Victory in the Heartland" signs along with hay bales, corn stalks and even a Case tractor. "I'm sure you've heard...
...measures on its ballot, has more than any other state--would require farmers to give pregnant pigs and calves raised for veal a little more living space. Another aims to pump up voter turnout by setting up a $1 million jackpot for one lucky voter every two years. A Nebraska measure proposes to double funds for treating compulsive gamblers, to $1 million. Voters in Colorado and Nevada will decide whether to make the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana legal, while those in South Dakota vote on whether pot should be legalized for medical purposes. Georgians may choose...