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State officials put livestock losses by Michigan farmers at $614,000 in 1980, a 50% increase over 1979. In the first six months of 1981 the toll was already at $571,310. To curb rustling, Fitzpatrick has introduced legislation that would require farmers to brand and register cattle as well as other livestock, making it easier to trace stolen animals. Meanwhile, some farmers have taken to patrolling their fields at night, armed with bright lights, shotguns and resolve...
Representatives of Spaulding and Slye, a development firm building a massive office complex at 1000 Mass Ave, agreed to meet with local residents to discuss potential traffic problems. Some councilors said they might vote to deny necessary curb cuts if some agreement could not be reached. "I'm not threatening you; I just want you to sit down and talk," councilor Saundra Graham told a Spaulding and Slye planner...
...council also tabled consideration of a curb cut on Columbia Avenue for Bioran Inc., a medical testing firm that tore down a building on the site in an apparent violation of city...
...Poland's military/political leader imposes his version of order by imposing martial law and immediately appeals to his people's sense of nationalism to curb their nationalist aspirations. His appeals to the "Fatherland" evoke memories of the formerly martial Fatherland to Poland's west and provide a neat mate for the martial Motherland to Poland's east. Iran's religious/political leader imposes his version of order by imposing harsher measures than his military/political predecessor...
Moscow's sobering warnings helped Kania curb his radicals and marshal a safe, moderate centrist majority at a crucial party congress in July. The party reformers were still strong enough to purge most of the old Central Committee, and only five top party officials, including Kania and Jaruzelski, were reelected. But control stayed in the hands of Kama's centrists, who, under pressure from Solidarity, had allowed an amount of freedom in Poland that would have been unthinkable just twelve months before...