Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Don Simpson checked into Tucson's Canyon Ranch Spa last year, he figured he needed to knock off a dozen pounds. The co-producer of Flashdance, Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop knew he "had a tendency to gain weight" after each movie. Still, the string of megahits had only managed to push the scale up to 199 lbs., not too far out of line, he thought, with the standardized chart readings for a 5-ft. 9-in. 40-year-old male. But Simpson got a rude shock when the spa analysis revealed what proportion of his weight...
...locals call him el Patron. A tough-talking, leathery native of Indiana, he came to Costa Rica in the early 1960s and carved out his own Central American Xanadu, 40 miles south of the Nicaraguan border. The 1,500-acre ranch where he raises cattle and grows oranges is the centerpiece of six properties he owns or manages. Once a week the modern-day feudal baron and his Costa Rican wife Margarita ride out on horseback to check on the 100 workers in their employ. El Patron also enjoys climbing into his blue-and-white Cessna and taking off from...
...lately there has been trouble in John Hull's paradise. The threat of assassination has prompted the 66-year-old rancher to ship his two children to the U.S. Barricades have been installed along the perimeter of his main estate. The ranch-house roof has been reinforced to resist mortar attack; large mesh screens cover the windows to repel grenades. Until recently as many as five bodyguards, paid a total of $800 a month, watched over Hull and his wife. This protection, says Hull, was provided by his stateside patron...
More than 1000 people at Heritage USA don't have to worry about booking rooms--they live there year round. Clusters of ranch houses along Christmas Road (in the summer, it's decorated with American flags; in the winter, with lights and reindeer) are populated by kids, dogs and 4-by-4 trucks...
...declared that the pending agreement on intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) was not, by itself, enough reason to justify a Washington summit. Unless the U.S. was willing to talk about ways to limit Reagan's cherished Strategic Defense Initiative program, he would prefer to pass up Thanksgiving at the ranch. Barely a year after he had done much the same in Reykjavik, Gorbachev pulled off a bait-and-switch scheme at Reagan's expense, luring him into high- level, high-visibility diplomacy only to shock and infuriate the Administration at the last minute by holding summitry hostage to American concessions...