Word: breeds
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Soon enough, he started to fulfill the requirements for judgeship. Get certification as a cat show master clerk. Pick up seven years of experience with one body type. Breed three Grand Champions. Know the standards for every breed. Then, the final test: serve at least five times as an assistant judge under a qualified master. Only a few survive the arduous weeding-out process. Barnaby made...
Today he could just as well be in Chicago orBangor, but he is here, in Boston, at theFourteenth Annual All-Breed Cat Show at theMariott Copley Place. The ceiling seems too lowfor the 20,000 square feet of floor space, and thesquare columns at 30 foot intervals obscure theview--making the space seems smaller than it is.Carpeted in brown pile that doesn't show stains,the flourescent-lit hall holds some 200 cats withas many breeders, two dozen vendors, a handful oftelevision people, four judges, and more than1,000 spectators. The crowd is almost exclusivelywhite, with only...
Each judge will scrutinize all of the cats,first ranking them separately by breed, and thenchoosing the top ten cats of the day. Barnaby isalmost done. He places his third-place cat, a RedSomali, back in her cage, and removes a BluePersian. Barnaby's moves are swift and sure. Heruns his hand down the back, thumb along thespine, evaluating the finish of the coat anddevelopment of the musculature. He focuses on thehead, measuring the placement of the ears and nosewith his forefinger and noting the color and shapeof the eyes. Helfing the cat in the air, one handunder the chest...
Note first that Clinton and Tsongas are new-breed Democrats. As they seek to craft a different relationship between government and the private economy, they challenge their party's traditional orthodoxy. In some ways (and especially when Tsongas touts his unabashed probusiness views), they sound like moderate Republicans, that nearly extinct species whose nostrums George Bush once championed. Tsongas enjoys a reputation as a hard-nosed economic truth teller, largely because he never tires of self-righteously describing himself in those terms. Clinton, on the other hand, suffers from what Mario Cuomo calls the "dumb-blond syndrome...
Players make everyday decisions essential to the ants' survival, such as where to forage for food, when to hunt, and when to breed more worker ants...