Word: sheeps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been said that the choice Muslims face in eastern Bosnia is between < being transported like cattle and being slaughtered like sheep. Last week they got both. Shattering a two-week cease-fire, Serbian forces unleashed artillery attacks on refugees packed into the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica...
Besides teaching, Rubin said he will continue working on the English translation of Japanese author Haruld Murakami's latest novel, Wild Sheep Chase. Rubin said he will also be writing a book about Murakami...
...TERRIBLE HIGHLAND CLEARANCES OF THE 18th century, thousands of Scots were driven from their farms so that landlords might turn the fields over to the mass grazing of sheep, a more efficient and profitable enterprise. The wool business prospered. The Highlanders starved or went to America. It was the end of one way of life. Or the beginning of another. Economics uprooted culture, and changed everything...
...Bill Clinton and Al Gore, the Interior chief plans to revitalize the National Park Service and increase the protection of endangered species. But his most politically complex mission is to scale back once sacred subsidies for those who use federal lands: miners, the timber industry, and cattle and sheep ranchers...
...Babbitt wants grazing fees raised across 16 Western states, which would affect 29,000 ranchers whose cattle and sheep graze on about 280 million federal acres. The current fee, $1.86 per month to graze one cow and her calf, is well below market value. But any raise is tempered by concern for small ranchers. An estimated 45% of ranchers using federal lands have fewer than 100 cattle. Babbitt's idea: a two-tier fee structure that charges the small rancher less and offers a credit to those who improve the land. In May he will hold hearings on the issue...