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...National Center for Health Statistics reported last week that the American fertility rate dropped in July to the lowest monthly level since the late 1930s. While the birth rate is still 2.5 per couple-.4 above the optimum sought by advocates of zero population growth-the figures suggested that the concept of family planning is taking firmer hold...
...With those two guys out, we won't be able to run from as many different sets. Because of the personnel shifts involved, we won't be playing at our optimum level Saturday," coach Joe Restic said yesterday...
Still, there is a finite limit to the physical resources of the globe, which means, in turn, a limit to the number of people the world can support. But how many people is too many? At what point is the "optimum population" reached...
More sanguine experts suggest that America's optimum population is still to be attained. Professor Donald J. Bogue, director of the University of Chicago's Community and Family Study Center, speculates that the U.S. population can be "twice what it is now without much difficulty," and that there will be even less difficulty if "the cities of this country can be greatly decentralized." Ben Wattenberg, a demography expert and former White House staffer, adds: "There is no optimum population as such. Whether we have 250 million people or 350 million people is less important than what the people...
...that bigness is dangerous, the critics face an almost unanswerable question: How big is too big? The Nader team's advocacy of an absolute $2 billion limit on assets is an overly simplistic answer. There are genuine economies in large-scale operation, and nobody knows what is the optimum size of a company. Trustbuster McLaren wonders: "Do you apply the same limits to an aerospace company and a candy manufacturer? If not, how do you determine the proper size for each...