Word: veterinarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would Shell Oil suddenly fire a 19-year employee who rose from $13,900 research veterinarian to $115,000 executive? According to Jeffery Collins, for one reason only: he is gay. Last week Judge Jacqueline Taber of California's Superior Court agreed, and ordered Shell to pay $5.3 million in damages for violating state law and its own contract with "a totally devoted employee...
Police work is full of occupational hazards. But canine cops working the drug beat face a special risk: getting high, and sometimes fatally intoxicated, on the stashes they are trained to sniff out. Veterinarian Val Beasley of the University of Illinois reports that his office receives about six calls a year concerning overdosed police dogs. "They don't eat the drugs because they like them," he explains. "In the excitement of the chase, they inadvertently inhale or swallow them when they pick up the objects in their mouths...
...Back Bay, lie in the 1st Suffolk District, along with the South End and parts of Roxbury and Dorchester. This diverse district is the scene of an unlikely battle, between eight-term incumbent Senate President William Bulger (D-South Boston) and upstart Republican challenger John DeJong, a Back Bay veterinarian...
...veterinarian first, and a candidate, a politician second," he says to the phone interviewer. As he talks, DeJong's dog, a black half golden retriever, half labrador, cautiously approaches wearing a "Beat Bulger" collar around his neck...
...HORSE VETERINARIAN, Doctor E. Scott MacAllister, lets me ride with him for a day, to watch him work and take some pictures as he makes his rounds to local farms (local meaning within fifty miles of his home.) Though cloudy, it is so bright I must squint to keep my eyes from smarting. He tells me last year he put 45,000 miles on his Astro-Van. We sit in the two front seats with the rest of the van filled with pills, salves, buckets and the other tools of his trade. We stop at eight or nine farms that...