Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that every presidential hopeful would do well to heed. Something has come unfastened in the West, and everybody has guns. "By circling the wagons, they see it's just them against the world," says the Cato Institute's Hess. He fears, he says, that the owner of some marginal ranch pushed to the brink by changing rules may turn desperate. "Someone's going to carry a gun, someone's going to shoot, someone's going to bomb a Forest Service office," he says. "And God knows what's going to happen then...
...Steal Big, Steal Little" is the story of twin brothers feuding over the million-dollar inheritance of a 40,000 acre Santa Barbara ranch. One brother schemes to turn the ranch into an urban development, neglecting his heritage. The other brother longs to "roam the range" without any responsibility...
...Saturday, Aug. 19, Levin and his wife flew to Montana for lunch at Turner's ranch. His wife, Jane Fonda, drove out to the local airport to meet the Time Warner business jet while Turner made sure lunch was ready. That day Levin laid out the details of the offer, which was the best deal Tur ner had seen for selling the company he had been building for more than 25 years...
WITH ANY GREAT RIVER, THERE IS A LONGING to find the source. In Ripken's case, it is an immaculately groomed, ranch-style home in Aberdeen, where he and his siblings grew up and where his folks, Vi and Cal Sr., still spend their days in semi-retirement: golf, bumper pool, tomato plants. Senior's tomatoes are such things of beauty that he could probably make a fortune selling them at a road stand, maybe even under a sign that reads SON-TRIED TOMATOES...
...Grace? Grace is simply beside herself. At her genteel woman's club she asks anyone else who has been sleeping with her husband to please identify herself. She also airs all the ladies' sexual secrets. The uproar is hilarious. Back at the ranch, she asserts herself--and the reality principle--more hesitantly...