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...Interior Secretary, Jack Horton is back on his 10,000-acre ranch in the foothills of Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains. He rises as early as 4 a.m. to tend his 400 Herefords, but also hopes to use his Washington experience as an environmental consultant. Says he: "You owe the world much more than to just go back and lock yourself up on a ranch...
...economic il literacy. Some live up to the limit of incomes that are suddenly reduced by layoffs or illness. Many ignore the extent to which inflation is reducing their ability to charge luxuries by raising the price of necessities. Most delinquent debtors never even add up what they owe until they are forced to, and then they are stunned by the totals. When Kevin White, 33, a fireman, and his wife Sharon, 30, a dental assistant, turned to the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Greater New York in 1975, Sharon thought they owed about $5,000 to $8,000; Kevin...
...internal maneuverings between Ram and the Prime Minister's son, Sanjay Gandhi. The 30-year-old Sanjay has begun to amass significant power as a behind-the-scenes actor in his mother's camp. After the elections, it is very likely that several dozen members of parliament will owe their seats in some way to the machinations of Sanjay. It is also believed that he forced Ram out of the cabinet to prepare the powerful agriculture post for one of his political allies, or maybe even himself...
...causes. The bloody activities of the Irgun and the Stern Gang had much less to do with establishing Israel in 1948 than the financial support of American Jews and the backing of the U.S. Government. Likewise, if there ever is a Palestinian state in the Middle East, it will owe its existence to the fabulous wealth and political leverage of OPEC Arabs, not to the murderous acts of Al-Fatah. As Laqueur, Parry and Psychiatrist Frederick J. Hacker demonstrate in their books, guerrilla tactics (as differentiated from partisan action or government terror) have usually been an attention-getting device...
...would create housing crises of increasing severity in the course of the next few years. I urge you to consider the pros and cons of this plan very carefully. My years at Harvard in the Economics Department and at the quad were the best years of my life. I owe more than I can express to the freshmen (now sophomores, juniors and seniors) that I got to know in Comstock; it would be a very different place without them. --Chip Case Wellesley, Mass...