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...officer, or game warden, is worried. Too many bull elk are being killed in the fall hunting season. Consequently, he believes, fewer than half of the cow elk in his district are giving birth to calves in spring. That is much too low; 70% is best to maintain the herd properly...
Each fall, as their mating season approaches, an immense gathering of caribou from northeastern Canada embarks on a migratory trek. Nearly 400,000 strong, the herd pushes its way from Labrador to winter grazing lands near Hudson Bay. This year many of the animals did not make it. At least 9,000 of them, and perhaps twice that number, drowned last week at two swollen river crossings in the remote wilderness of northern Quebec...
...with as many as 25,000 caribou still headed for the crossings, the Quebec government is hastily arranging for a mile-long a fence to be built in the area. Authorities are discussing the use of hired planes to generate a sufficient amount of noise to divert the migrating herd...
...very top last week. Chairman Roger E. Birk, 54, the company boss since 1981, announced he would step down July 1 as chief executive officer to make way for the firm's president, William A. Schreyer, 56. The move reflected troubles in the Merrill Lynch herd. Only about a year ago, the Merrill Lynch bull was snorting with satisfaction. Propelled by a booming stock market, company profits for the first half of 1983 jumped to $239 million, 3½ times as high as in the same period in 1982. But since then the bull has been hit by lances...
DEVELOPMNET ECONOMICS is a faddish field. While other practitioners of the dismal science study the herd mentality, development economists practice it. But despite many voices, consensus is hard to come by. The field's single universally accepted truth may well be the assertion that despite 35 years of attention, the problems of the Third World seem as intractable as ever. But in this mercurial field. P. T. Bauer has remained an academic constant...