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Meanwhile, the plight of Yellowstone's buffalo only gets worse. As riflemen dispatched more than 50 animals last week, hundreds of others, weak from hunger, lumbered through the thick drifts trying to stave off starvation by chewing on whatever bark and pine needles they could reach. Some good will is coming from the situation, however. Meat from the slain animals, properly treated, is being distributed to needy Indians and other groups...
...Beijing has dared face the high-risk social and political consequences of cutting off the subsidies that keep these plants working. Instead Beijing has been pumping billions of dollars into them to stave off their bankruptcy. Shutting down the biggest, most inefficient, monopolistic enterprises would throw millions out of work. Already, wildcat strikes and noisy demonstrations have disrupted several regions...
...changes in the constitution. He also made a couple of appearances at the Kremlin but they served only to underscore the harsh fact that Yeltsin's primary task these days is simply to keep himself upright and ticking. If he can manage that, the Kremlin may be able to stave off an early election and avoid succumbing to the impulse to tamper with an already flawed constitution...
...annually. "Clinton has to hit these big ticket items if he has any realistic chance of balancing the budget," says TIME Washington correspondent Jef McAllister. "Since Medicaid and Medicare have had big percentage increases in spending in recent years, this is not a revolutionary idea." That theory won't stave off gripes from the health care industry, from worried patients or from die-hard liberals in the President's own party. Fueling the fears of Medicare and Medicaid patients concerned that they will not be able to obtain health care when they need it, doctors and hospitals already are arguing...
...hiring away some of the hottest prospectors. Deutsche Bank lured investment banker Frank Quattrone from Morgan Stanley, apparently by offering the kind of deal that made it easy for him to walk away from a reported $10 million job at his old firm. Goldman Sachs is attempting to stave off poaching by creating a new rung on the corporate ladder: junior partners, who will share some of the riches traditionally reserved for full partners. The company named 38 new partner-managing directors to the post. Moral: on Wall Street as in sports, you can keep your stars only by paying...