Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dog owners beware: The Cambridge City Council last night declared war on impolite pets...
...Dog feces on sidewalks and in other public places constitute a serious risk to the public health and safety." Councilor David Sullivan stated in a resolution that was approved unanimously and without discussion last night...
...large, for the savagery of the assault on West Beirut, although many of his policies had been quietly endorsed by Begin. At a meeting of intimates, Sharon boasted: "I have the survivability of a superpower. No criticisms or opposition will harm me." On another occasion he remarked: "The dogs may bark, but the caravan goes on its way." Still, when Begin, angered by the inordinately heavy and prolonged bombardment of Beirut ordered by his Defense Minister, told Sharon to ease his attacks, there was no protest. Others who once opposed Begin, including even Moshe Dayan, were adroitly maneuvered...
...unrelated incident at the Law School, the U.S. Army threatened Harvard with a loss of Pentagon research contracts because the Law School does not permit Army recruiting. Harvard joined five other universities in the military's dog house. All six school's have strict non-discrimination policies for oncampus recruiting, which the Army says cannot follow because it excludes homosexuals and many disabled people from recruitment drives...
People with ultra-audiometric hearing, says Berlin, are usually born with full-range hearing, but become deaf in the lower registers after suffering a high fever, virus or meningitis in childhood. Some have an extended upper auditory range and can hear dog whistles or the shrill hiss of a department-store electronic security system. Their problem, as in Kam's case, generally goes undetected because of inadequate testing. Most testing devices do not produce sounds above a certain frequency, Berlin says, "and it is precisely at this cutoff that ultra-audiometric patients begin hearing." Worse still, ultra-audio-metrics...