Word: elk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before the white man came, the Indians venerated them as gods. Weighing as much 1,000 Ibs. and rearing up to 8 ft. on their hind legs, the great humpbacked beasts-among the largest carnivores in North America-can kill an elk or crumple the fender of a car with a swipe of a powerful paw. Still, for all its might, the grizzly, or more properly Ursus arctos horribilis (terrible northern bear), has become pathetically vulnerable...
Though the Park Service refuses to reopen the old dumps, it is considering such tactics as leaving elk carcasses in grizzly territory not only to bolster the nutrition of the bears but to keep them from wandering off. The Government is also beefing up its patrols. One purpose is to keep an eye out for poachers. Another is to educate the flood of visitors expected again this summer, telling them of the dangers both to themselves and the bears from chance meetings. Says Chief Park Ranger Tom Hobbs: "The grizzly won't change his habits. We have to change...
...more than 100 oil and gas companies went into bankruptcy during the past year, while employment among extraction workers tumbled 26%. "The decline is continuing, and we may not even be able to measure its full impact," says Will Bowman, research director of the Oklahoma employment security commission. In Elk City, which sits over the energy-laden Anadarko Basin, joblessness jumped from 2.4% in February 1982 to 11.8% this February. Laments Mayor Harold Wehrenberg: "Everything kind of cut off all at once. No one really expected anything like this...
Twelve-year-old Mary Kellerman of Elk Grove Village took Extra-Strength Tylenol to ward off a cold that had been dogging her. Mary Reiner, 27, of Winfield, who was poisoned on Thursday, had recently given birth to her fourth child. Paula Prince, 35, a United Airlines stewardess, was found dead in her Chicago apartment, an open bottle of Extra-Strength Tylenol near by in the bathroom. Says Dr. Kim: "The victims never had a chance. Death was certain within minutes...
...Gold Coast whirligig is almost too good to be true for Tom and Donna Wigdahl. Tom owns an electrical contracting company in Elk Grove Village, Ill., and commutes during the November-May Florida season. They have "lots" of polo ponies and a three-bedroom villa at the P.B.P.C.C. "We've met lovely people from all over," says Donna. "From Colombia, Germany, Brazil. You don't talk about changing diapers. Between the wealth, the polo and the people, it's just been fantastic. It answers everything I want out of life. And here...