Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FREIGHT TRAIN RUMBLED TO A HALT ON A CATTLE ranch in Hudspeth County, and workers began unloading biologically treated sludge onto the dry West Texas earth. County Judge Billy Love reflected on the manurelike mush with satisfaction. "This is about as big a blessing as the community could hope for," he declared. "The gains for us far outweigh any dangers...
...everybody in Hudspeth County concurs. Ever since an Oklahoma consortium, MERCO, announced plans to turn the old 128,000-acre ranch into a repository for millions of tons of New York City sewage, local ranchers and townsfolk have worried about toxic pollution spilling into their air, their soil and the waters of the nearby Rio Grande. But overall there was a strong show of support for the project, because MERCO offered 35 jobs and a $10,000 weekly payroll...
...spoke about having been impressed in recent weeks by a "revitalized" Democratic Party. And that was even before Clinton's acceptance speech, which adroitly pitched the Democratic tent in the middle- class backyard. The President appears to have noticed too; he spent the week fishing -- but at the Wyoming ranch of Secretary of State James Baker, the Bush campaign chairman in 1988 who may sign on for a repeat engagement...
...have sent Bush tumbling in the polls and fueled speculation that Secretary of State James Baker, the engineer of Bush's 1988 election victory, would have to put aside his diplomatic portfolio and bail out his old friend once again. During a fishing trip at the Secretary's Wyoming ranch last week, Bush seemed to leave the door open to such a move, saying he hadn't "yet" discussed Baker's return. But it is a foregone conclusion inside the Administration -- especially in the wake of Ross Perot's exit and Bill Clinton's surge in the polls. "There...
...peace with nature beyond the boundaries of the patchwork of parks and protected areas, which cover less than 1% of the globe. Through a combination of respect for the land and luck, the Pantaneiros have shown that this might be possible. At the headquarters of the huge Novo Miranda Ranch, manager Ito Menezes says, "The Pantanal has always vanquished human attempts to mess...