Word: breds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yankees acquired some good runners from the minors, too. Mickey Rivers, from the farm club called the California Angels, stole more than 43 bases and Willie Randolph from the farm club in Pittsburgh, stole 35 bases. One pure-bred Yankee, Roy White, snagged about 29 bases...
That Joe B. Wyatt, the newly appointed vice president for administration, made costly errors on computer systems and applications recommendations in his previous positions as director of Financial Systems and Information Technology and director of the Office of Information Technology (OIT). Brown-Beasley states that the Texas-born and-bred Wyatt's dual positions constituted a conflict of interest, offering Wyatt an unfair advantage in his attempt to improve operations of the once troubled computing center...
...shaped larvae can literally eat their way through a live steer. For years, they were a major scourge of the cattle country in the U.S. Southwest. It was not until the 1960s that screwworm flies were brought under control by a cunning form of biological warfare. Millions of flies, bred in a factory in Mission, Texas, were irradiated with sterilizing doses of gamma rays and released into the wild. When sterile males mated with normal females, which make only one sexual contact during their two or three weeks of life, the unions produced only infertile eggs-and the fly population...
Afternoon Heat. While probing differences between wild-and factory-bred flies, Zoologist Guy L. Bush and Biochemist G. Barrie Kitto of the University of Texas, with Zoologist Raymond W. Neck of the Texas parks and wildlife department, found that the larvae were kept at an unnaturally constant, warm temperature, mainly to speed up growth. Also, young flies were unable to fly around much in their cages. Eventually, the researchers write in Science, a markedly different strain emerged. No longer as vigorous, the male does not become active until the heat of afternoon, whereas his wild brethren are busy impregnating females...
...proliferation of Gulf Coast ear ticks has resulted in wounds on cattle that provide ideal hatching places for screwworm larvae. In addition, some scientists speculate that because the factory males are smaller and differently colored, the wild females may be finding them less attractive. In any case, future factory-bred males may be more formidable sexual competitors. The Texas factory and a large new breeding plant formally opened last month under a joint U.S.-Mexican commission in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico, are now producing a more aggressive fly strain, tagged 009. Explains a commission spokesman: "He is a macho Mexican...