Word: ranches
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This historical pronouncement was accompanied by some typical Reagan anecdotage, including a rambling story about a federal program for the maintenance of cattle ponds. Some years ago, when one of the ponds on Reagan's ranch was being repaired by his own workmen, he recounted, "these Department of Agriculture guys showed up and said, 'Send these guys home. The Government would pay for it.' " Reagan, who said that he ended up paying for the repairs himself, told the story with great verve, though some at the meeting wondered what relevance it had to the current fiscal crisis...
With a crisis approaching, Dyson ordered that results of the June 20 survey be sent to him while he attended a reunion at his family's Argentine ranch. Aides telephoned the report to Buenos Aires, where it was tape-recorded and driven six hours to the Dyson spread. It arrived as the executive was dining on a freshly slain and roasted heifer. Reading the document, Dyson realized that consumer anger was reaching critical levels. Says he: "You can get a wonderful perspective on some problems when you are half a world away...
...room putting on last-minute touches when Ted arrived. I could hear when Peter opened the door and Ted burst through, his over-the-top voice booming out, "Hey, Montana! Gimme five!" Peter lives in Montana and, as I learned later, Ted had just bought a ranch there and was excited that they had this in common...
...time of that discovery, Fonda and Turner were in a six-year marriage that worked largely because she had given up acting, moved to Atlanta and adopted as her hobbies hunting, fishing and ranch hopping (Turner is the largest private landowner in the U.S.). "When I met Ted," she says, "I'd had just about everything in life except real intimacy. I knew that he was the one I wanted to have it with, so I committed to doing whatever it took for things to work." She stuck with Turner for two more years before confronting him with what...
...dating, and when asked whether she gets hit on, she responds with a perfectly timed "Ha!" She and Turner remain close, and she credits him as "the catalyst" for her awakening--"although he'd probably just laugh at that." Turner sometimes visits her at her 2,200-acre ranch outside Santa Fe, N.M., but for the first time in her life, Fonda is content to be alone--proof, she believes, of her serenity. Still, she did recently consult a psychic. "She told me with a great deal of certainty that a man was going to come into my life...