Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long last NBC has ended its great host hunt to replace the late Frank McGee on Today (TIME, July 15). After Front Runners Tom Brokaw and Garrick Utley had made it clear that they would not be caught feeding dog food to a dalmatian before breakfast, the network found a more easygoing newsman...
...them have brain damage," claims Frank McMahon, chief field investigator for the Humane Society of the U.S. in Washington, D.C. The St. Bernard, like other breeds before it, has suffered the effects of popularity. Citing huge commercial "puppy mills" run by unscrupulous owners, McMahon says: "The minute a dog rises high on the American Kennel Club list, the inbreeding and overbreeding start viciously...
Others argue that irresponsible owners, not careless mating, are at the root of the problem. "Anyone who has a large-breed dog should be required to take it to obedience school," says Canine Psychologist Michael E. Fox of St. Louis' Washington University. "The younger dogs are the more trainable," he adds, and recommends "six to eight weeks old" as a good starting time...
Dramatic Increase. The shift in prestige from snooty miniatures to large dogs is a big factor in the current epidemic of biting. "Dogs are by far a more serious public health problem for this city than rats," says Deputy New York Health Commissioner Dr. Pasquale Imperato. With Dr. David Harris of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, Imperato has written a study of dog bites in New York City from 1965 to 1970. They report that more than 43% of the bites in the survey were by dogs weighing 50 lbs. or more. Confirming their findings, Urban Ecologist Alan Beck...
...that same period the bite rate doubled. Beck estimates the number of dog bites in the U.S. each year at 1 million, the annual cost of managing the problem at $50 million. There are no federal, state or municipal laws regulating breeding, although there are many statutes on humane treatment. But odds are that canine affairs will now receive closer attention. Last April a poll by Nation's Cities magazine showed 60.6% of U.S. mayors reporting that animal problems lead the list of urban complaints-with traffic in second place and crime in a distant eighth...