Word: makeing
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...Houck was ousted from his Missouri River bottomland to make way for the Oahe reservoir. He moved to the plains northwest of Fort Pierre, S. Dak., and put his purebred cattle on grass. They were devastated in the 1966 blizzard, and so Houck decided to experiment with buffalo. Today he has 3,000 head that seem to thrive in the cold and the heat. Houck slaughters a thousand bison a year and sells all the meat he can produce. Bill Mathers doubts he will ever switch to bison. But as he stands on Horse Creek Butte and looks...
...Democratic candidate for Massachusetts Governor explained why he didn't make a campaign appearance in Boston's predominantly black Roxbury neighborhood: "I'll tell you something about that area. There's no sense making a speech on crime to a group of drug addicts...
...real reason for the spate of Mob movies is that a few powerful artists want to make them. Directors love the form because its speed and anarchy spoke to them as young moviegoers. More important, it allows them to confront, in code, the awful ethnic schisms of American life; Italian vs. Wasp stands in for black vs. white. Actors love Mob movies because, now that the western is dead, the genre gives them one last chance to strut their maleness in a traditional setting. They can act like cowboys without having to ride a horse. And, as avatars...
...nation, combining elements from both the Ryzhkov and Shatalin programs. Gorbachev asked Abel Aganbegyan, one of the early architects of his perestroika policy, to draft the joint package. Last week the economist delivered his report to the Supreme Soviet. According to Aganbegyan, it had proved impossible "to make a single program out of the two." The compromise plan that he presented is drawn primarily from the Shatalin plan -- with some notable amendments by Gorbachev...
Gorbachev also tinkered with the timetable and scope of some of the proposed reforms to make the changes less jolting. The Aganbegyan document, along with copies of the complete Shatalin plan, the Ryzhkov proposals and materials on 120 alternative schemes considered by a separate study group led by Aganbegyan, were dispatched last week to the Soviet parliament and the parliaments of Russia and the other republics...