Sales grew by leaps and bounds and profit margins soared, rewarding the company founders and the herd of investors who fell in love with the stock.
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Firstly, the idea that there was a need to thin the herd of elephants because of an overpopulation problem sounds like what a hunting operator would say, but it is not the truth.
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While I feel compelled to continue to throw out the caveats that (1) Ms. Market can and often does do whatever she can to frustrate the masses and (2) the current move is becoming extended, it is VERY hard to argue with the herd of stampeding bulls right now.
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The USDA said it remains confident in the health of the national herd and the safety of beef and dairy products.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Monday that he remains confident in the health of the national herd and the safety of beef and dairy products.
But bizarrely as the size of the herd has gone down, the size of individual steers has gone up.
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In the short run, at least, the herd behavior of the pros makes it even harder for you to take a winning bet against the "speculative element" in a stock's price.
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Finally he sees, through his binoculars, what the driver is trying to warn us about: a pride of lions, stealthily approaching the nearby herd of antelope.
Their numbers grew from four to about 20, making them the largest herd of hippos outside of Africa and famous symbols of the cocaine industry.
But just 15 minutes later, when the fox was satisfied the group was not a threat, it returned to investigate the strange herd of two legged creatures, running in circles around the group and scent-marking the small parcels of food it had previously stockpiled in the ground nearby.
Across the water, a small herd of elephants, two adults and a child, emerged from the brush, and closer to the canoe, a herd of water buffalo lay all but submerged in the bleary green waters, escaping the late morning sun.
Moreover, once the infrastructure has proved successful, further trials will be carried out to establish how many cows in a herd need to be monitored to give a reliable indication of the herd's overall state of health.
After a tense few minutes, the elephant rejoins the rest of the herd, trampling through bulrushes nearby.
The rest of the herd will move to grass fields at Lower Box Hill Farm, Dorking.
And now vaccine resistance is spreading among parents who want to free ride on the herd immunity of others.
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Given the herd mentality of the PC industry, more customers could follow.
Keeping up with the pack is the ante to play, but dooms you to stay in the middle of the herd.
Such rational beings are simply overwhelmed by the force of the herd.
Unlike normal buffalos that are dark brown in appearance, the albino buffalo is almost beige and easily stands out from the rest of the herd.
What differentiates American Express from the rest of the herd?
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How can your company gather the courage to zig while the rest of the herd zags, so you can get some shut eye by the time the next Black Friday rolls around?
While the industry is seeing the number of dairy farms contract, the number of animals per herd is increasing, indicating a concentration of the industry as fewer, larger units develop.
Try to take the negative connotations of the herd concept and put them aside for a moment.
Although the Europeans seemed prepared to wait, we reluctantly returned to our car after an hour, and cut back through the peninsula, with a herd of guanacos scampering ahead of us on the road.
Despite introducing efficiencies and increasing the size of his herd to about 150 cows, Mr Downes said many of the costs he and fellow farmers faced were out of their control.
My mother, Patricia Cockburn, took my temperature and asked Paddy McMahon, an elderly man who looked after the walled garden and our small herd of sheep, to bicycle into the town of Youghal a mile and a half away, to get a doctor.
The large numbers of herd animals -- wildebeest, zebra, antelope -- and the drama of the migration attract many visitors to Kenya and Tanzania -- but in places like the Ngorongoro Crater you are likely to see many other vehicles during a game drive.
Not the silence of the lambs, but the silence of the sheep, and the herd instinct that goes with it.
The bus startled a herd of yaks who stampeded off the road like sheep as we approached.
There are echoes here of the herd instincts let loose by the program trading of 1987, or the dotcom mania of the recent equity bubble.
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