Word: ranches
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...owners of the 8,500-acre C Lazy U Ranch, a two-hour drive from Denver, make sure every guest enjoys a complete Christmas. Ranch hands decorate for days, looping garlands and hanging lights. There is a grand tree in the main lodge and a smaller one in each room that guests can decorate themselves. The pastry chef creates a gingerbread replica of the ranch that even includes recognizable ranch hands. After Christmas Eve dinner, Santa arrives on a sleigh pulled by horses decked in bells and wreaths to hand out a gift to each child. On Christmas...
...Watson, a venture capitalist, says he and his family "start looking forward to our annual Christmas trip to this gorgeous ranch around August." They first went there 10 years ago and have returned ever since, making many friends they can't wait to see again...
Meanwhile, squeezed by rising costs and low beef prices, the old ranching families have sold out one by one. If their land is attractive and reasonably close to a city, they can find buyers in these good times among rich middle-aged men like George W. Bush. They want a place in the country where they can hunt, fish, sit with their wife on the porch in the evening, and maybe run just enough cattle to qualify for an agricultural tax exemption. But the biggest reward is that being a ranch owner fulfills their belief that at heart they...
...Bush's case, buying a ranch is even more significant. While he doesn't repudiate his New England heritage, he has always insisted that he is a Texan. Buying a ranch is a way of saying once and for all that he's a Texan, that his values are rural and instinctive rather than urban and intellectual, that he is his own man and not the prisoner of his family legacy. Owning a ranch is homage to a past that must be easier to honor than it would have been to live in. It's walking in the footsteps...
...this swirled around them last Saturday, Bush and his top aides huddled at the Governor's ranch outside Waco trying to prepare for Tuesday's first debate. Spokeswoman Karen Hughes attempted to distance Lozano from Bush, saying she worked for Maverick Media and not the Governor. Bush said he would fire anyone caught "stealing from my campaign." And McKinnon, while still insisting he was "confident" of Lozano's innocence, spoke in a voice laced with uncertainty: "I don't know what to think...