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Dale Crawford will clear $11 on each of the horses he brings in, not much profit for a month of grueling work. He has written to President Reagan, as he did to Jimmy Carter, suggesting a partial return to the days of old, when hunters could stalk horses and sell them to meat factories. "As it is," he says, "thousands of taxpayers' dollars are being poured down the drain." But out on the Colorado range, matching wits and stamina with the proud mustangs, the bottom line seems a faraway concern. "The excitement of bringing those horses in," says Crawford...
...sitting in 1985. Worst of all, no one expects that the $1 billion settlement account will come close to covering the legitimate claims for compensation. Though Iran has promised to replenish the fund, that too remains in doubt. Thus, the companies face the prospect of protracted litigation with only partial return, or none at all, to reward them for their trouble...
...atmosphere"of intrigue and fear in the prison has continued despite the willingness of the New Mexico legislature to spend $90 million on improving the institution's facilities. The operating budget has been boosted by 39%. Overcrowding, considered a partial cause of the riot, has been alleviated: the prison population is down from 1,157 to 675. Still, a third of the convicts remain housed in army-style dormitories, an arrangement that many penologists say breeds conflict and gang rule...
Would the beginning of negotiations with the Pakistanis permit the initial, partial withdrawal of Soviet troops? Said Dost: "Both we and the Soviet Union want this limited contingent of their forces withdrawn. But for that to happen, these interventions from abroad in our affairs should stop, and international guarantees should be given that intervention will not recur. First we must reach that stage: the cessation of all armed intervention and aggression from abroad...
...companies are beginning to design plan options that provide at least partial inflation protection. If a worker chooses to take a lower initial retirement benefit, for instance, his pension checks will be increased each year by a fixed percentage of the rise in the Consumer Price Index. H.J. Heinz Co. has already introduced an indexing option, and several other companies are considering...