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...putting the surrounding property on the block anyway. The State of California would like to lease the site for use as a park or youth hostel, but does not want to buy it. Whoever does buy it will need to negotiate a right of way with a local rancher whose land abuts the lighthouse property. But anyone who can afford the price, estimated to be at least $1 million, can probably afford to pay for an easement as well...
...mischief-making possibilities of this splendid sidearm may have occurred to an occasional rancher's son, with dire results for rooster weather vanes and passing semitrailers. But the Nel-Spot fell among major-league upsetters of the peace last year in Gaines' Newbury, N.H., living room. He and his friends were jawing enjoyably about whether a city man, adept at taxi-dodging and expense-account padding, could possibly have the survival skills in the outback of a hardened countryman. Hayes Noel, 40, a trader on the floor of the American Stock Exchange in Manhattan, took the hell...
...made little effort to redress the wage imbalance, in the eyes of many feminists it has set out to blunt the victories of the past ten years. Around the Women's Legal Defense Fund, President Reagan's popularity rating is about as high as the heels on a California rancher's boots. Among the grievances: Administration suspension of stronger affirmative-action regulations for businesses receiving Government contracts; withdrawal of wage-discrimination and sex-segregation guidelines for federal contractors; elimination of the $500 million set aside for child care in the federal budget...
Bechtel began life virtually as a one-man operation, when a young German rancher named Warren A. Bechtel decided in 1898 to hire himself out with his mules to help construct a railroad line through Indian territory. The company established its name nationally in 1931 by helping to lead the eight-company consortium that built the Hoover...
...that he owes the FHA. Each year from now on, someone from that office will look Danny up to see if he can make more payments. He is not sure how he will earn a living now. For the time being, he plans to weld fences for a nearby rancher...