Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...followed the sheep," he reminisces. "Something's always killing sheep." It was Lawrence's job to find the right rogue: one bear feeding off cattle among 30 who lived peacefully on Arizona's White River Apache land. A single lion killing sheep among a dozen living near one edge of the Grand canyon. "If I killed the wrong one, I wasn't doin' my job," he explains. "I'd lave to study a cat, learn where he fed, where he went to water, where his scent stations were...
...posse out of the Old West. They seized millions of dollars' worth of drugs and airplanes, and scores of smugglers who had figured the harsh, 13,000-sq.-mi. wastes of the desert could serve as a safe private landing field. In one successful two-week camp-out near a remote airstrip, his team bagged a DC-10, two tons of marijuana, a four-wheel-drive truck and four smugglers...
...Less law. Complex law makes for complex litigation. The hopelessly vague antitrust laws, for instance, have been a chronic problem for troubled courts since 1890 and produced a tangle of conflicting interpretations. The antitrust monster of U.S. vs. IBM is now ten years old and nowhere near resolution. Clarifying or simplifying labyrinthine laws would save millions of dollars in legal costs as well as free judges to work on other matters. Like regulatory schemes that do more harm than good by stifling competition, some laws might even be eliminated altogether...
...without a crisis. Counselors are threatened; youngsters run off. But the psychologically trained staffers (five for every ten campers) usually intervene quickly and after a talk return the child to the day's activity. Only in extreme cases are kids banished to "Group Zero," a grassy area near the counselors' quarters, where they are left by themselves to think about their errant ways. Says Leichtman...
...future looked bleak for Roosje, or Little Rose. The latest member of the famed open-air chimpanzee colony at The Netherlands' Burgers Dierenpark, near Arnhem, she had been born to a handicapped mother who could not care...