Word: preying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What really riles Hanson is the Government regulations that hamper his ranching. "Big Brother has got his arm solidly around you," he says. The Environmental Protection Agency will not let him use weed spray on his feed crops com animal poisons against the coyotes that prey on his calves. He complains that the Bureau of Land Management will not plow back more of the ranchers' grazing fees into improving the range, and that he must seek permission from the Army Corps of Engineers to build a culvert along a stream on his own property. "It's rules...
Durst and his fellow seniors on the Crimson have witnessed inordinate adversity. The 1978 squad lost its four games by two, five, one and seven points, respectively. Last year's team suffered through what can only be described as a nightmare, as quarterback after quarterback fell prey to injury. This year, however, the Crimson has clamped down in the clutch, and Chuck Durst simply ascribes that success to "character." Coach Joe Restic ascribes that success to Chuck Durst...
...group. But to accept the burden of white America's failure is something we must never do. Mr. Gershman and Mr. Robert Klitgaard (as spokesmen for the dominant white class) will always try to put us into an ideological trick-bag. It is important that we never fall prey to such pseudo-intellectualism and militant racist assumptions...
...years he has been stalking his prey, sometimes discreetly, sometimes unabashedly. Last week Michel Rocard finally made his ambitions official. From the town hall he occupies as mayor of the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, the compact (5 ft. 6 in.), crimson-cheeked economist formally declared that he was challenging François Mitterrand for the Socialist Party's nomination as its candidate against Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in the presidential election next May. Rocard gracefully suggested that Mitterrand, a veteran of more than three decades in French politics, could stay on as party leader...
...Capitalism doesn't allow free thinking," Ture said, adding, "Capitalism misleads people. It makes them think there are just ends." And since man has an inclination toward justice, he can easily fall prey to capitalism, he added...