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...Pyrrhic Victory. Most other Australians still detest the dingo. They have spent about $330 million since the turn of the century to eradicate the animal. They hunt the wild dogs from planes, bait sheep carcasses with poison, pay a bounty of as much as $13 per dingo scalp. They have even built-and maintain-a 5,402-mile-long wire-mesh fence that zigzags across most of the island continent, protecting the nation's 148 million sheep from the predatory dingo. Even so, says Brian Neill, supervisor of the New South Wales Wild Dog Destruction Board...
Australia's war against the dingo has sharply reduced sheep losses-and the population of the wild dog. But further gains may well be a Pyrrhic victory. A still incomplete, decade-long government study has already concluded that the dingo preys heavily on rabbits, wallabies and other grass-eating animals. If the dingo-becomes extinct, the herbivores will proliferate and compete more vigorously with Australia's sheep for pasturage. The result would be a far more serious threat to the sheep than is now posed by the dingoes themselves. Indeed, viewed with an ecologist...
Even if the unions can be made to abide by the terms of the social contract, Wilson may find himself struggling with the consequences of a Pyrrhic victory, for union cooperation can only be bought at the price of serious policy concessions. According to TIME Correspondent Lawrence Malkin, the T.U.C.'s "favored programs of better government health, housing and social security, higher taxes for the rich, redistribution of income, unrestrictive labor laws, and commitment to economic expansion and full employment differ little from those that George Meany perennially champions. The difference is that Meany knows he hasn...
...resolved, the coals continue to smolder and, on occasion, a spark ignites. The CCA won one and lost one last season. But in succeeding to replace former School Superintendent Frank Frisoli '35 with the highly-touted Alflorence Cheatham of Chicago, it aroused the ire of half of Cambridge -- a Pyrrhic political victory at best. In losing the City Manager fiasco, the CCA also lost its majority on the City Council. Councillor Henry F. Owens III, a black attorney and millionaire heir of a moving company, broke with his fellow CCA councillors over the selection of a replacement for two-year...
...making. If resentment of the U.S. becomes enshrined in Europe's monetary and trade policies, the dollar might fall even lower. For Europe and the U.S., that would signal the start of an economic war in which neither side could expect more than a Pyrrhic victory...