Hints and tips:
...But at this year’s annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, they got their best view yet of the man whom Buffett regards as the answer to the succession question: Greg Abel, the 60-year-old vice-chair of the company...
...These women, young and middle-aged, from France, from Italy, from Nebraska, from Connecticut....
...Fears over safety and pollution and an increased awareness of the risks of climate change have led to a surge of protests and legal objections by environmental campaigners, Native American tribes, and community...
...Ben Sasse, the Nebraska Republican senator, made it clear that he believed the president of his own party was responsible for the turmoil in the nation’s capital. “Lies have consequences....
...Shares in two of the largest manufacturers, Winnebago and Thor, whose brands include the striking silver aluminium Airstream trailers, have risen as fuel prices and loan conditions have eased....
...The states of Montana and South Dakota have approved the pipeline, but there have been warnings of protests and legal challenges from environmental campaigners and Native American tribes....
...the northern leg of the same company’s infamous Keystone XL pipeline that runs to Nebraska, ultimately depositing at the Gulf Coast....
...Over the winter the tribe urged the protesters to go home, in part because of concerns about their waste polluting the river, and the principal protest camp has been cleared away....
...s tomb: the cult of the pure national tribe is back with a vengeance....
...That suit ensnared Scott Tucker, a Kansas-based businessman who funded a career as a race-car driver through arrangements with the Miami and Modoc tribes of Oklahoma and the Santee Sioux of Nebraska....
...Resident in the US since 2012, Obioma graduated with a masters in creative writing from the University of Michigan then took up a teaching role in Nebraska, which started in August....
...Common ground In O’Neill, Nebraska, everyone gets along. It has seen an influx of Hispanics, which has created tension in some parts of the state....
...However, Whiteclay, a Nebraska town of 40 people two miles south of Pine Ridge, sells 5m beer cans a year, the vast majority drunk by the Oglala Sioux....
...In Pine Ridge, I chat with elderly members of the Oglala Lakota tribe. Their names conjure up romantic images – Gerald One Feather, Catherine Looking Elk....
...Support.com, an online support company, followed and went public in 2000, before he cofounded Tribe.net, an early social network, in 2003. It was acquired by Cisco in 2007....
...In Nebraska, the largest tribe does field preparation for military equipment, putting together the packs that soldiers take into the field....
...Members of the Klamath tribe at several points shouted out protests against the dams, which they say have destroyed fish and threatened their livelihood....
...A member of a native Indian tribe, clothed in traditional robes and choking back tears, asked Mr Buffett to remove hydroelectric dams built by a Berkshire unit in Northern California....
...Questioners representing west coast salmon fishermen and Yurok and Karuk tribes from nearby states movingly asked him to intervene over the environmental sins, as they saw it, of PacifiCorp, a utility acquired...
...If the tribes are as sovereign as the official rationale claims, it is not clear why they owe any money to the state of Connecticut at all....
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