The fact, for example, that some 70 percent of all farmers in the world are poor, working small holdings (a few acres per farm) additionally invites consideration of all those farmer dwellings.

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"We never knew that we were living next to such a dangerous facility, " said one farmer among those evacuated.

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But senior energy analyst Fadel Gheit of Oppenheimer and Co. says oil companies can no more control those prices than a farmer can dictate what he gets for a bushel of corn.

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Maybe that means you get to chat with the farmer about how those brilliant tomatoes were grown.

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But to farmer Jeffrey Indiama, if those folks voted for Kibaki, they might as well be Kikuyu.

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While Article I of the Constitution limits Congress to regulating interstate commerce, the court has taken a broad view of those powers, up to and including prohibiting a farmer from growing wheat for his own consumption because it might interfere with a national price-support program.

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Aiming treatment at those animals would reduce the likelihood of resistance emerging without harming a farmer's ability to control infestations.

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And even for those who can afford them they are not that effective since, by the time a farmer spots an infestation, it is too late to spray.

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Among those present were Conservative Party chief executive Andrew Feldman, party donors Lord Sainsbury and Michael Farmer and Murdoch Maclennan, chief executive of the firm which publishes the Daily Telegraph.

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