Word: ranches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spur sales, Jim McDougal, a local savings and loan tycoon, % thought he needed a model home -- and the help of one of his Whitewater partners, Hillary Rodham, as she then called herself. In 1980 McDougal loaned her $30,000 to build, own and ultimately sell a three-bedroom ranch-style unit. When the buyer of the home later became insolvent, Hillary and her husband Bill Clinton bought the property out of bankruptcy and resold it in 1988 for $28,000 to its present owner. Last month the Justice Department began to subpoena documents pertaining to sales of Whitewater lots...
...many rings can a circus have? Especially a tabloid freak show like the Michael Jackson affair? The star returned from medical seclusion in London to cooperate with authorities investigating sexual-abuse charges against him. But on his Neverland Ranch in California, Jackson seemed only the main attraction in a seven-ring circus of horror...
...only one thing I dislike about this job . . . that I'm married and I can't ever get to see you. I hear that sweet voice on the telephone . . . and I would like to break out of here and be like one of these young animals down on my ranch, jump a fence...
With the best gains apparently behind them, should U.S. investors pull out of foreign funds? Not entirely. John Markese, president of the American Association of Individual Investors, advocates keeping up to a third of a portfolio in foreign assets. Spread risk among regions; don't bet the ranch all at once, he counsels, and keep an investment horizon of at least five years. Some emerging markets -- particularly in Asia and South America -- are likely to outperform the U.S. and Europe. But creating the wealth of nations takes time. After all, as they say, Rome wasn't built...
Back at the Ranch...