But they had no homes to go to, no cattle, no tools and no seeds.
No cattle vaccine is available, and one with the ability to provide near whole herd immunity is years away.
As for the rest of Obama's oil plan, it is (in Texas parlance) a classic case of all hat, no cattle.
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There he was befriended by Ferdinand Ward, a typical all-hat-and-no-cattle fast talker whom Grant was too naive to recognize as such.
Mad-cow disease is clearly no respecter of national boundaries: cattle and cattle-feed are traded (and cows sometimes actually walk) across borders in the Union.
His wallet is understood to have been found at the cattle ranch but there was no sign of his rucksack or running shoes.
That is possible but no easy task for a farmer like Peter McKilligan whose cattle are bought from Shetland to Stranraer.
He added the cattle had been moved into a nearby field and "pose no threat to other members of the public".
Grazing antelope gaze at Bervy from a ridge as he peppers Murphy with questions about the ranch's mineral rights (the ranch owns a majority interest), the cattle capacity (up to 500 head) and environmental study (no contaminants were found).
Here lemurs and other wildlife showed no fear of the local Tandroy tribesmen who lived a traditional life with the zebu cattle that form the basis of their wealth.
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The answer is that the markets and the foreign exchange markets are no different from any other market, in that sometimes they act like a herd of cattle.
No-one has yet studied the net worth of the fish Lake Turkana produces, the benefits of the cattle pasture - and the costs that society will have to bear if those things disappear.
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