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...check. Faced with a $7 million loss in Medicaid funds, Connecticut is unlikely to continue helping cover the costs of eyeglasses and prosthetic limbs. Says a spokesman for the state office of policy and management: "A lot of things that have been taken for granted are just going to disappear...
...after two weeks, the war of nerves becomes irrelevant. The trays keep arriving, but by now the prisoners have lost their craving for food. The stomach cramps and pains recede and eventually disappear. The prisoners concentrate instead on their daily five pints of water. Now their only concern is whether they can hold down the water without retching. A small bowl of salt is provided for each prisoner, and he can sprinkle in as much as he wants. When the hunger strikes are far along, the prisoners ask for carbonated water and the British grant the request...
...should come down, from a 9.9% rate through December to 7% next year, dropping to around 4% by 1986. Interest rates should go down from 13.6% now on 91-day Treasury bills to 5.5% in 1986. At the same time, contends the Administration, the federal budget deficit should almost disappear as rising productivity and increased employment combine to increase federal revenues and wipe out the loss to the Treasury from the tax cuts. By 1984, according to this rosy projection, the deficit should have shrunk from around $55 billion next year to a minuscule $2.2 billion-though even that could...
Residents of Renteria speak often of a raid in 1976 when scores of police, searching for terrorists, smashed shop windows, urinated in elevators and looted stores. Says the mayor of Renteria, Xabin Olaizola: "ETA will not disappear until there are profound guarantees of rights for the Basque people. It is better to take the gamble of having ETA. It is the guarantee that we can keep fighting for our rights...
...memoirs and lost them from his Lanier "No Problem." Historical Romance Writer Robyn Carr (The Blue Falcon) fears that workmen digging near her new house in Florida will hit a power line. A voltage drop of even a few seconds could cause the displayed page of text to disappear on her Burroughs Redactor-III. (Apple Computer Inc. offers an accessory for just such occasions-a battery pack that supplies electricity during blackouts. Its name: Apple Juice.) The most surreal glitch occurred when Environmentalist-Writer Michael Parfit, 30, recently heard a zap, and his Radio Shack TRS-80 stopped dead...