Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believed that the reasoning of the Corporation's 1978 policy statement precluded investments in such companies. The more moderate alumni and faculty members were dismayed as well at the apparent toothlessness of the Corporation's policy. And even the ACSR's conservative chairman, Business School professor Walter J. Salmon, thought something was amiss. In one of its rare moments of near unanimity, the ACSR decided to raise the issue with the Corporation...
...CCSR). On April 4, the entire ACSR joined the four-man CCSR for breakfast at the Faculty Club, expecting an hour and a half of ethical dialogue. What took place was closer to a briefing on Corporation policy. The discussion, as always, was extremely civil. The ACSR, through Professor Salmon, expressed its dissatisfaction with the Corporation's current policy. Hugh Calkins '45, the chairman of the CCSR, reiterated the Corporation's stance, and indicated that the Corporation's stance, and indicated that the Corporation wanted to avoid using ethical criteria in making investment decisions. Only after the Corporation had purchased...
...poaching has become a growth industry, taken over by gangs who shanghai salmon the way more conventional bandits rob banks. Today's poachers use radio-equipped lookouts to check for water bailiffs, sophisticated systems of decoy cars to deploy their forces and middlemen to market their take. The object: big catches, swiftly and efficiently distributed. The only weapon the government men have is a truncheon, which, under antiquated rules, can be drawn only in self-defense. The poachers, meanwhile, sport a growing assortment of weapons...
...proposed solution is a salmon-tagging stratagem similar to one used successfully in Canada. Legally caught salmon are tagged by the head or tail. Anyone-fisherman, merchant, even restaurateur-who handles an untagged fish could be liable to a sizable fine...
...ophthalmic surgeon from Atlanta who does a lot of big-water expedition kayaking. Once in Alaska he and a friend were sluicing at high speed along Prairie Creek, in the neighborhood of Mount McKinley. The creek was 30 ft. wide, and it was fast and rocky. Salmon slapped the bottom of their kayak. Abruptly they came upon a grizzly in the water, fishing for salmon. There was no way to stop or get out of the creek, so Waring and his friend went on paddling. They passed 20 ft. from the grizzly, which ignored them and perhaps...