Word: ranches
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...notes 140 ways to spell the state's name, among them Ka, Kaal, Ka-Anjou and Kaw; the last being the present spelling of the name of the Native American tribe, now nearly extinct, that lived here before the coming of whites. Somewhat uneasily, he watches an all-woman ranch team castrating bull calves. He talks to old inhabitants who tell of monstrous floods and of hiding in "fraidy holes" -- storm cellars -- to wait out tornadoes...
...effort by McGuane and others to preserve their land through conservation agreements. A group called Montana Land Reliance arranges tax breaks for landowners who pledge never to subdivide their holdings and to protect their water and streams. So far, the Reliance has placed 77,000 prime acres of ranch property under agreements that protect more than 170 miles of stream and riverbanks. Others, including Turner and Claiborne, have promised their land to the Nature Conservancy and similar groups to protect it from development...
...whore you must be a dyke." Though any hint of homosexual activity means close scrutiny, gay military personnel say a good deal of wayward heterosexual activity is tolerated, even tacitly approved, by the military hierarchy. At the end of the gulf war, a Nevada brothel called the Mustang Ranch offered free passes to returning soldiers. "For some reason," says Wilson, "going to a whorehouse in their dress blues is not a problem...
...after a year. Earlier this year, Citi pulled the plug on a computerized information service aimed at grocery shoppers. Knight-Ridder lost about $50 million in a failed home-shopping service. And in its ambitious effort to make paper vanish, Wang Laboratories itself almost disappeared when it bet the ranch on manufacturing expensive document-scanning and imaging systems that nobody wanted. Says David Goulden, a Wang vice president: "The market's been a disappointment...
...answering machine at his 60-acre ranch in Sonoma County, Calif., Keen sings Cole Porter's Don't Fence Me In. Keen grew up in Alabama, Tennessee and Delaware ("more Huck Finn than Holden Caulfield," he says in his high- pitched foghorn of a voice) and has a doctorate in philosophy of religion from Princeton. His thesis concerned the idea of mystery. "I've always been interested in talking clearly about things that can never really be known," he says...