Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clarkson lost its big gun when Jarmo Kekalainen traded his final season of college hockey for a contract with the Bruins last summer. Mike Casselman is the new leading scorer for the Golden Knights, who rank second to RPI in team offense...
...case of Mustang Meadows, Day and his two partners anticipated earning a $50,000 annual profit from a huge tract they assembled by buying 22,000 acres for $1.4 million and leasing 10,000 adjoining acres from the Sioux Indians. The money would come from IRAM's contract with BLM and the state of South Dakota, which pays the sanctuary an 85 cents-per- day subsidy per horse...
Some critics say that being the brother of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor may have helped Day get the BLM contract. But, scoffs Day, "Sandra doesn't even drive 56 m.p.h. She didn't even know about this until it was a done deal." A more serious complaint about Day's techniques has been lodged by environmentalists who believe that wild horses ought to be just that -- wild. "They're nothing but a big herd of domestic horses," says Donna Ewing, president of the Illinois-based Hooved Animal Humane Society and a former colleague of Hyde...
...Mustang Meadows)) is about as close to natural as you can get," says Boyles. "As long as Congress says we can't destroy healthy excess animals, the sanctuary gives us the least-cost alternative to keeping the horses we can't place in private homes." BLM has awarded a contract for a second sanctuary in Oklahoma...
Soon, however, the Trabant that Germans both love and hate may be no more. In 1990 East Germany plans to begin producing Trabants fitted with cleaner, four-cylinder engines manufactured under a 1984 contract with Volkswagen. VW is also negotiating a joint venture to develop a successor to the Trabi...