Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposal to cut crop subsidies to farm owners who earn more than $100,000 a year in nonfarm income, a measure known as the "Sam Donaldson Amendment,'' after the abc newsman who collected five-figure federal subsidies over the past two years to support his New Mexico sheep ranch. When asked why wealthy farmers should not help balance the budget, Nethercutt, sounding remarkably like Foley, replies that some spending programs are "just a sensible use of federal dollars...
Young and his second wife Pegi live in soothing isolation on a ranch near San Francisco, a few miles from Silicon Valley. Their 16-year-old son Ben has cerebral palsy, and Young, who is fascinated by technology, has started a company that makes devices for the disabled, as well as high-tech toys. The firm is working on an improved wheelchair that Young helped design. Ben tests every device his dad's company makes. Says Young proudly: "He's a cool...
...beige ranch house was in a hushed cul-de-sac on the eastern edge of Los Angeles -- not exactly where you would expect to see half a dozen sheriff's deputies in bulletproof vests, pistols at the ready. The gray-haired Chinese man who answered the door last Tuesday soon found himself handcuffed next to an associate, facedown on the floor, while the police searched the sparsely furnished home...
...extensive offices, factories and businesses of Aum in search of evidence and arrested dozens of lower-ranking members on a variety of minor charges. They discovered that Aum had as many as 30,000 members in Russia, where the group bought chemical-weapons detection gear, and owned a ranch in Australia, where the sarin gas was tested on sheep. For fear of being seen to be treading on religious freedom, Japanese police were reluctant to question key Aum figures until they had clinching evidence of their guilt. However, after Hideo Murai, a top Aum science official, was murdered on April...
...need the damage control," Coffey said. "Everybody is riding their high horse and nobody is making sure the cows don't leave the ranch...