Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6) (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that
is the way to bet." --Hugh Keough

JL

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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> > Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> > > Harking back to the joke about the bear -- "I don't have to outrun
> > the
> > > bear, I just have to outrun YOU." --isn't it more important for the
> > > gazelle to outrun the slowest gazelle??
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> > Right, the gazelle would be fine if it were faster than the slowest
> > gazelle in the subset of the herd that is being chased.
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> Unless, of course, the lion wanted seconds.
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