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Most of the future increase in livestock production is expected to
occur in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Cattle
are the most numerous of the ruminant species in the tropics and
provide the largest quantity of animal food products. More than
one-third of the world's cattle are found in the tropics. Disease
is the major factor which prohibits full utilization of these
regions for cattle production. Various infectious and transmissible
viral, rick ettsial, bacterial, and particularly protozoan and
helminthic diseases, are widespread in the tropics and exert a
heavy toll on the existing cattle industry there. This uncontrolled
disease situation also discourages investment in cattle industries
by private and government sectors. In Africa alone, it is estimated
that 125 million head of cattle could be accommodated in the
tropical rainbelt if the disease and other animal husbandry factors
could be resolved. The potential of efficient cattle production
under more favorable conditions prompted various international
agencies to establish a multi million dollar International
Laboratory for Research in Animal Diseases (lLRAD) in Nairobi,
Kenya, Africa. In South America, principal sites for raising cattle
are shifting to the savannah lands because the more fertile soils
are being used for crop produc tion, however, in the savannahs
also, disease remains the most powerful deterrent in implementing
the cattle industry."
Most of the future increase in livestock production is expected to
occur in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Cattle
are the most numerous of the ruminant species in the tropics and
provide the largest quantity of animal food products. More than
one-third of the world's cattle are found in the tropics. Disease
is the major factor which prohibits full utilization of these
regions for cattle production. Various infectious and transmissible
viral, rick ettsial, bacterial, and particularly protozoan and
helminthic diseases, are widespread in the tropics and exert a
heavy toll on the existing cattle industry there. This uncontrolled
disease situation also discourages investment in cattle industries
by private and government sectors. In Africa alone, it is estimated
that 125 million head of cattle could be accommodated in the
tropical rainbelt if the disease and other animal husbandry factors
could be resolved. The potential of efficient cattle production
under more favorable conditions prompted various international
agencies to establish a multi million dollar International
Laboratory for Research in Animal Diseases (ILRAD) in Nairobi,
Kenya, Africa. In South America, principal sites for raising cattle
are shifting to the savannah lands because the more fertile soils
are being used for crop produc tion, however, in the savannahs
also, disease remains the most powerful deterrent in implementing
the cattle industry."
No other poet excites such fanatical, worldwide devotion as Robert
Burns (otherwise known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's Favourite Son,
the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire or simply the Bard). Ian
McIntyre's biography, first published to mark the bicentenary of
Burns's death and revised here for the 250th anniversary of his
birth, is still considered the best take on a notorious and often
over-romanticised life. McIntyre's meticulous use of documentary
and archival sources strips away myth and legend. Here, we meet the
man - eminently capable of holding two contradictory political
views at the same time, he was just as capable of being in love
with several women at once. McIntyre also fully evaluates Burns'
songs and poetry and brings to light the importance and quality of
his satirical verse. McIntyre is enthusiastic but always objective
and his work brings us the clearest, most sharply appreciated
portrait of this great poet.
"Dogfight "examines the intense rivalry of the past two decades
between the European Airbus consortium and the major U.S. aircraft
manufacturers, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. From the Americans'
point of view, Airbus has been heavily subsidized by its supporting
governments--indeed nearly nationalized--and not exposed to the
risks and disciplines of the market place. From the European
perspective, Airbus has been a standard-bearer for European
technological, manufacturing, and marketing prowess in the face of
historical American industrial domination. This dispute has spilled
over the bounds of the purely commercial and become a serious
transatlantic trade issue.
Although there has been a certain amount of admiring writing
about Airbus in Europe, there has been no previous attempt to weigh
the issues even-handedly by exploring them on both sides of the
Atlantic. Dogfight examines the roots of the conflict in the middle
sixties and carries the story forward to the tentative agreement on
some of the outstanding issues reached by the U.S. administration
and the European Commission in the spring of 1992. In placing the
controversy in its political and international context, the author
has had access to many of the key players in the industry in both
Europe and the United States and has interviewed a large number of
politicians, officials, and senior airline and aircraft
executives.
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