Word: ranch
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...they are to embrace tax caps-have yet to agree on the proper role of private funds. For now, the debate is local-and intensely heated. "We've looked at the issue of equity over the years, and we've been stymied,'' says Bob Early, principal of the Taylor Ranch School in Venice, Florida, which raises about $20,000 annually. "This is a case of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Parents want their efforts to benefit their kids, and any program to redistribute funds is not at all popular...
Will Harvard make the NCAA Tournament? Don't bet the ranch on it. But does it have a chance...
...turmoil grew worse when former California Supreme Court Judge William Clark, the leader of the boardroom putsch that removed Agee six weeks ago, resigned last week as acting chairman to return to his consulting business and his horse ranch in California. Clark, who once served as Ronald Reagan's National Security Adviser, said he had achieved his goals of exposing the company's financial woes and putting in place a new management team. Also departing was Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, who, like Clark, became a director just last year. Remaining members of the company's beleaguered...
Wilson himself has a lackluster media presence. This has not always hurt him in California, where hard-plugging, middle-class suburbanites feel he is one of them. Wilson, in fact, lives in a shake-roof ranch house in suburban east Sacramento. He barbecues, plays the piano, exercises on a StairMaster in the spare bedroom, shops for videos at the Arden Fair mall and travels economy class on commercial flights. He is the suburban Everyman...
...film a video for one of the four new songs that have been added to Springsteen's greatest-hits collection. The mood was convivial. After hours of filming, Springsteen shouted, "The heck with the video!" and he and the band joyfully launched into their old hit Cadillac Ranch...