"You allow this to happen to people's lives - it's not just the insurance for their house or helping out with some aspect of the farm, it's much, much more than that, " she said.
Will Qualcomm build its own factories to keep up with demand rather than continuing to farm out production to contract manufacturers like Taiwan Semiconductor?
Other pharmaceutical companies, which had tried to combine agriculture with drug making, put their farm divisions out to pasture.
Another approach is to farm some operations out to other firms, as, for example, car makers have done with their components supplies.
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.
Tracy Britt, 28, grew up on a farm in Kansas and struck up a relationship with Warren Buffett while at Harvard, contacting him out of the blue to see if he would meet with a non-profit group she co-founded focusing on investment education for undergraduate women.
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Besides, though farmers have the right to pull out of an enterprise, they cannot merge their land shares with others' to create a bigger farm.
The government's economic team looks out of its depth, with few plans except to spend its oil windfall on public works and farm co-operatives, and no understanding of how to create the conditions for private investment.
Planters also used group incentives to encourage honesty, doling out a barrel of corn to each hand with the caveat that if anything was stolen from the farm and no one turned in the thief, double the value of that corn would be deducted from each of their Christmas awards.
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With a milk crisis looming today, the complaint is not that government should stay out of the farm business.
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The political clout of farm states in an election year led to this gross subsidy-fest, with lawmakers falling over themselves to dole out cash to farmers.
They would farm the task out to thousands of owners of personal computers by sending them chunks of data from radio telescopes, along with the software needed to look for intelligent signals.
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