• Otherwise lawyers can pull the promising ones--say, the tennis-playing 40-year-old executive with three kids who died of a heart attack--and farm them out to affiliated law firms without violating their pledge.

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  • He said World Help would no longer farm out its gift-in-kind fundraising to an outsider but use its own employees.

    FORBES: Big Charity Admits Wildly Overstating Donated Goods

  • That's supposed to be when everybody is working on -- out on the farm and bringing in harvest.

    WHITEHOUSE: Online Town Hall

  • The sharp gains in gold could also be attributed to traders expected a very weak U.S. non-farm payrolls figure, due out shortly.

    FORBES: A.M. Kitco Metals Roundup: Comex Gold Sharply Higher amid Lower Stock Markets; U.S. Jobs Data Awaited

  • Many farmers using these seeds have even been able to implement a "no-till" system, which offers tremendous environmental benefits by preventing soil erosion, keeping farm water and chemical run-off out of local watersheds and releasing less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • With last-minute demand, California's only foie gras farm, Sonoma-Artisan Foie Gras, is essentially sold out, says owner Guillermo Gonzalez.

    WSJ: California Gorges on Foie Gras Ahead of Ban

  • In New York City, for example, travel agencies routinely farm out chores like updating frequent-flyer credits to online boutiques as far away as India.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Is the New Economy Dead?

  • An end-point of 2010 would have put more beef into the review planned for 2008, as well as holding out greater hope of farm-subsidy reforms in the Doha round.

    ECONOMIST: Why the EU budget compromise is worse than no deal at all

  • Mantles Restaurant, the on-site eatery, offers farm-to-fork cuisine in a casual yet sophisticated setting that would not be out of place in New York City.

    BBC: Daily deal: Canadian mountain lodge

  • The amendment, sponsored by John Ashcroft, a Republican from Missouri, and supported by a bipartisan coalition of other farm-belt senators, ran into anti-Castro fury in the House and was left out of the final farm bill.

    ECONOMIST: George Ryan in Cuba

  • He rents out a special piece of farm-drilling equipment.

    ECONOMIST: True grit

  • But that was long before Hanes began moving much of its production offshore, and before the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (under which the tobacco companies agreed in 1998 to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in damages for harming people's health), the leveraged buy-out of RJR by a private-equity firm, the elimination of federal farm price support for tobacco and decades of anti-smoking advertising.

    ECONOMIST: North Carolina builds on the legacy of the golden leaf

  • But the only options for players who have washed out of the major-league farm systems are independent leagues.

    WSJ: From Baker U. to the Bronx

  • The current discussion with 4 teams is to use 2 of the 4 marquee bowls (Rose, Orange, Sugar, Fiesta) as national semi-finals, and then farm the championship game out to the highest bidder.

    FORBES: College Football Playoff System a Blessing, But 4-Team Structure Appears Flawed

  • Starting in its days as an independent company, many have criticized it as a "content farm, " a website that cranks out low-quality content designed to game search engines like Google to get page views and sell advertising.

    CNN: Yahoo hacked, 450,000 passwords posted online

  • Many new initiatives in the bill fund research and programs for farm-based biofuels, including everything from making methane out of cow manure to planting switchgrass and especially, growing corn to make ethanol, which has been promoted as a means toward energy independence.

    NPR: Farm Bill Offers Aid to Fruit, Vegetable Growers

  • And there are legitimate grievances, such as the north's rampant farm-sector protectionism that keeps competitive crops from poorer nations out.

    FORBES: Talk isn't cheap

  • First, they went through the massive farm bill and cut out some antiquated and duplicative programs -- the kind of government waste that makes voters go berserk.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Although the debate ends in July, the results of the farm-scale trials of four crops proposed for Britain, carried out over the last four years, are not due to be known until September.

    BBC: City hosts first GM debate

  • Meanwhile, an over-acting but green-fingered Renee Zellweger arrives to help Ada out on the farm.

    BBC: Ada and Inman are kept apart during the war

  • Nash was struggling to farm the strike, and he was the last man out, upper-cutting Broad to Alastair Cook at third man.

    BBC: England seal emphatic Lord's win

  • My sprawling Hill Cottage was tantalizingly close to ready when I arrived at Blackberry Farm a few hours before check-in time, but as it turned out, I wasn't quite ready for the cottage.

    FORBES: Blackberry Farm, Walland, Tennessee

  • Until recently Ram Krishna Khodpe and his four brothers were eking out a meager living cultivating cotton on their 5-acre farm in the semiarid region of Jalgaon in India's western state of Maharashtra.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Their plan: to create a "virtual car company" that would farm out most of the design, engineering and manufacturing work for the V-12 to outside suppliers.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Their plan: to create a "virtual car company" that would farm out most of the design, engineering and manufacturing work for the powerful V-12 to outside suppliers.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But on the minus side, Mr Monti wants to farm out most of the enforcement of rules against restrictive practices, such as price-fixing, to national watchdogs and courts.

    ECONOMIST: Improving European antitrust

  • Last month EU farm ministers approved a programme to destroy all older non-BSE tested cattle to keep them out of the food chain, affecting up to two million animals.

    CNN: Beef sales slump after EU BSE scare

  • Some things are in his favour: prices for Argentina's farm exports have picked up, and the economy, having pulled out of a four-year slump in 2002, was expected to grow by around 5% this year.

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  • The prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, has pointed out that China represents a potentially huge export market for high-priced Japanese farm goods.

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  • Oh and by the way, the United States will not budge on its protection for textiles and on its use of anti-dumping laws, and the European Union wants to carry on keeping out foreign farm products.

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