Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months after they met, the two set out together, Nettles leaving behind her husband, four children, and a small astrology practice. Shortly after that, Applewhite told his family he would never see them again. For the next six weeks, the two endured painful soul-searching in a Texas country ranch house. They said later that it was difficult to concentrate on their developing beliefs that UFOs would come one day to take them to a higher world. But the retreat gave them a new understanding of their calling, and the two embarked on a long journey of proselytizing. The pair...
...months after they met, the two set out together, Nettles leaving behind her husband, four children, and a small astrology practice. Shortly after that, Applewhite told his family he would never see them again. For the next six weeks, the two endured painful soul-searching in a Texas country ranch house. They said later that it was difficult to concentrate on their developing beliefs that UFOs would come one day to take them to a higher world. But the retreat gave them a new understanding of their calling, and the two embarked on a long journey of proselytizing. The pair...
...dipping into the national treasury as if it were a kind of personal cash machine. No one knows how much he is worth; his visible assets include mansions in Switzerland and Spain, several homes in Belgium, a town house in Paris, a villa near Monte Carlo and a horse ranch in Portugal. But while the President and other members of his kleptocracy profited handsomely, Mobutu's leadership laid waste the economy. In 1994 Zaire's per capita GNP was $125 (70% lower than it was in 1958), and prices rose an average of 23,773%, the highest level ever recorded...
Compared with what it was two years ago, Reagan's world has shrunk considerably. His beloved ranch near Santa Barbara is off-limits and up for sale; his vigorous regimen of old would be too risky today. Phone conversation is increasingly difficult. When he watches television, his comprehension swims in and out of focus. It is, as Nancy has aptly called this final chapter in Reagan's long career, "the long goodbye...
...drove along a thin, wooded road and found the entryway into the ranch: laser-guarded, barbed-wired and accompanied by the anxious grrrrr of concealed attack Dobermans. A good omen--they had something in there worth hiding. A walk around the property's perimeter at first yielded only more of the same. Then we turned a corner and through the trees saw children playing a game of some sort--little houses moved around a board with sticks. The children spotted Lori and me and several of them came over...