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Gerald explains, "This is just an aside, but if you talk to any dog-breeder, he'll tell you that every individual breed of dog has its own disposition or temperament. The analogy to human beings is actually good...
...seems to be divided into "them" and "us." "Management should understand that it is like the Yanks and Russia," he says. "You have enough strength to cancel each other out. If the unions were not as powerful, the clock would go back because I don't think that breed ever alters. We just don't work as partners. When they want something, they talk about common interest. But whenever we've needed anything, we have either had to knock it out of them or almost rape them...
Vanishing Breed. Some of Jadot's most important messages concern candidates for U.S. bishoprics. When a see is vacated, a committee of U.S. bishops sends Jadot a terna−a list of three candidates for the job. Jadot prepares his own assessments of the men, then sends the list to the Sacred Congregation for Bishops. Pope Paul makes the final decision. So far, the 35 bishops who have been appointed to U.S. dioceses since Jadot's arrival in the U.S. show a distinct trend that the Vatican favors. They tend to be pastoral leaders, "holy men with intelligence...
Thoroughbreds are the most exploited athletes in the world. Owners do not consider the entire anatomy but breed horses for massive chests. Trainers use drugs to keep their mounts on the track, and some may medicate to disguise a horse's unsoundness...
...residential areas around Los Angeles, ignoring keep-out signs, crashing uninvited into swimming pools and filling the night air with unholy howling. Hollywood partygoers gone astray? Marauding hippies from Haight-Ashbury? No, these intruders in the hills and canyons around tinsel town are, of all things, a new breed of citified coyotes...