Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's with these guys? In recent years the House Judiciary Committee has become an ideological rodeo. Its everyday agenda is heavy on such hot-button issues as late-term abortion, school prayer, gun control and affirmative action. The subject matter has done a good job of attracting true believers from both sides. "We're terribly polarized," says a staff member with a tinge of pride. "We fight like cats and dogs." Prominent Republicans with a cause include Charles Canady, father of the English-as-the-official-language bill, and Barr, an anti-gun control crusader with close ties...
...enough to make a cowboy spit. While the beer and liquor flowed and cigars flared in the new sky boxes of Montana State University's football stadium, local collegiate rodeo boosters were drowning their sorrows elsewhere. M.S.U., which played host to the College National Finals Rodeo for 25 years until 1997, almost had the lucrative, week-long competition back for June 1999, much to the pleasure of the Bozeman Chamber of Commerce and the Lions Club. But once it became clear that the rodeo's big-money sponsor, U.S. Tobacco, planned to hang signs in the arena and hand...
...alive is accidental. Sick of the Senate and himself, and knowing that he is going to die soon, Bulworth proceeds to deliver head-snapping reality to his audiences--that money has rotted a system that has abandoned those at the bottom--as he romps comically through Los Angeles, from Rodeo Drive to Watts...
...Earnings in 1997 by top pro rodeo bull rider Ty Hickerson...
...Number of serious injuries incurred during the 1997 rodeo circuit...