Physicians, public health experts, and industrial health experts came from the Public Health Service and the Farm Security Administration.

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The current law, known as The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, traces its roots back to the system of price controls developed during Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.

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Inspired by the Depression-era Farm Security Administration photography project, its photographers shot everything from small Midwestern towns, barrios in the Southwest and coal-mining communities in Appalachia to African-Americans in Chicago, urban renewal in Kansas City and migrant farm workers in Colorado.

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Louis Milne, who runs the farm, said the man had worked as a security guard on the farm until six months ago, when he was fired for pointing a gun at his nephew.

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Other measures to reduce transmission include improved bio-security, particularly stopping badgers from getting into farm buildings where they can come into contact with cattle, or feed stores.

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"Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history, " Eisenhower wrote his brother.

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Virtualization DOES work, but in a narrow sense: if you need a dedicated server, not so much for power as for security, data integrity, and the like, you can farm out a VPS a lot cheaper than you can farm out a whole machine.

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