Word: ranches
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...whose novel made the middle-aged extramarital dalliance seem like a cosmic event having a fling of his own? According to Texas Monthly, Bridges of Madison County author Robert James Waller, 58, has split with his wife of 36 years, Georgia, for another woman, Linda Bow, 34, a ranch forewoman. The Wallers' only child, Rachael, tells the magazine, "How do you watch your hero fail...
This was an offer--for the Reagan Ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif.--all too many were able to refuse. The Western White House sat on the market for 13 months until the perfect buyer, one who can print money if he has to, showed an interest: Uncle Sam. Republican Congressman Ralph Regula of Ohio, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee in charge of federal parks, is brokering a deal whereby Congress will appropriate $5 million and give it to California, which will in turn give it to the Reagans for the 100-year-old adobe house and grounds they paid...
...Ronald Reagan's ranch is set to become a $5 million national park (TIME Daily...
...cows are a constant touchstone for Museveni, the firm ground beneath a philosophy he believes can rescue Africa from chaos. So he often repairs to his cattle ranch in the green hills of Rwakitura where he grew up and where his father before him and his son after him tend the long-horned herds. As the cows file through the gate to the communal wateringhole, Museveni softly calls each by name. "This one is Gaju Ya Bihogo," he says. "That one is Kiremba Kya Ngabo. The gray one over there is descended from my grandfather's herd." Surveying the cattle...
...which are in agribusiness, media, insurance, travel and real estate. Deseret Management Corp., the company through which the church holds almost all its commercial assets, is one of the largest owners of farm- and ranchland in the country, including 49 for-profit parcels in addition to the Deseret Ranch. Besides the Bonneville International chain and Beneficial Life, the church owns a 52% holding in ZCMI, Utah's largest department-store chain. (For a more complete list, see chart.) All told, TIME estimates that the Latter-day Saints farmland and financial investments total some $11 billion, and that the church...