Word: pecks
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Randall Wise, 32, and his associates in a Massachusetts firm called Animal Optics, Inc., are responsible for that ophthalmological advance. Wise had learned from his father, a California poultry farmer, that chickens with cataracts suffer reduced vision and also lose their tendency to peck one another to death, a lamentable chicken habit that can result in the destruction of up to 25% of. a tightly penned flock. In fact, the elder Wise had experimented with distorting lenses to reproduce the effects of cataracts and discovered that transparent colored lenses worked just as well...
Detroit, especially, is anticipating the early departure of Nader Disciple Joan Claybrook as head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, where she pushed hard for the air bags and tighter fuel-efficiency standards for trucks and vans that caused auto-industry headaches. Yale Professor Merton Peck, a Johnson Administration adviser, expects to see increased deregulation of small businesses where, he says, enforcement of rules is erratic and costly, and benefits to employees and consumers are marginal...
Prior to the board meeting, police warned Parrent and Peck that an attempt to enter would be a violation of the state trespass act and asked them to leave. When they refused to leave and tried to enter, a policeman "grabbed Parrent's arm and began dragging him away," the Daily reported. The two then were placed under arrest and led out of the building...
Parrent and Peck said the meeting should have been open because the board falls under the jurisdiction of Michigan's Open Meetings...
...convicted Parrent and Peck could face a fine of $50 or 30 days in jail. "Because we're first offenders, I doubt they would put us in jail," Parrent said yesterday. "But then again they might choose to make an example of us to discourage this kind of thing in the future," he added...