Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While I appreciate the technology that has enabled us to put a soldier's complete record on his plastic microchip dog tag, [July 25], I am appalled at what could happen if a G.I. were captured. The enemy would be able to read the information with his own computer, thereby leaving the soldier unprotected and destroying the doctrine of "name, rank and serial number...
...flock of aides and reporters, he and his wife pushed a cart through their local supermarket picking up provisions recommended by nutritional experts. The millionaire farmer reported that there were only a few minor hitches in living on this allotment for a week: "The family crisis was when the dog ate the biscuits. But that could happen to any family, rich or poor." Critics countered that tighter eligibility rules instituted by Block mean that the average family of four on food stamps receives only $39 a week, rather than the maximum figure used by Block. The Administration has proposed cutting...
...wound laboratory opened as scheduled, it might also have become a target of critics of Government waste: Defense Department researchers were planning to pay licensed dealers $80 to $130 for each doomed dog, instead of buying unclaimed dogs from humane societies-which would have put them to death anyway-for as little as $3 to $ 10 a head...
...bill to perform open-chest surgery on a Gordon setter. Since the company started in April 1982, it has collected more than $850,000 in premiums from 15,000 policyholders. About 75% of customers have renewed their policies. Among the pets insured are the video dog Lassie and Hugh Hefner's pair of English sheep dogs. Veterinary Pet Insurance so far does not cover Hefner's bunnies...
...Spanish film maker considered one of the cinema's greatest artists; of bile duct disease; in Mexico City. Son of wealthy, religious parents, Buñuel and his friend Salvador Dali transfigured their fantasies in 1929 into one of the first surrealist films, Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), a work of bizarre images including a man slashing a woman's eyeball with a razor. In 1930, L'Age d'Or (The Golden Age), with its brutal attacks on Roman Catholicism and bourgeois morality, established the ideological foundation for most...