Word: vetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...working their magic on my soul, the Sox were back Wednesday in full glory. Sitting in intimate Fenway Park, I felt connected with the father who took his two sons out of school to see the game, with the army vet waiting in line for pizza, even with the drunk guy three rows behind me who heckled opposing pitcher Scott Erickson ("They got you shaking in your boots, Scowtie!"). We all cheered in unison...
...radiates confidence, integrity, reassurance. Yet he is more than upstanding; he is charismatic, what former Secretary of State George Shultz calls "a big presence." His supporters are convinced he can transform American politics into something nobler and more productive. "If he becomes President," says Gaylord Stevens, a Vietnam vet who brought his son in a Boy Scout uniform to hear Powell speak in San Antonio, Texas, as his own father had brought him to hear J.F.K., "we would have a dream again...
...turned best-selling author; at his northern England home near Thirsk, Yorkshire. The Scottish-born James Alfred Wight did not begin writing until his early 50s, when he took the pen name Herriot and soon made up for lost time. His charming anecdotes of life as an English country vet tapped into the urban reader's apparently bottomless appetite for pastoral simplicity and infirm animals; All Creatures Great and Small, published in the U.S. in 1972, made Herriot a literary sensation-a status further enhanced by the popular BBC series based on his work. His 20 books were eventually translated...
...list goes on and on, running to more than 300 separate genetic disorders that subject dogs to enormous pain, roil the emotional life of their owners and, estimates Dr. William Schall, a genetic specialist at Michigan State University, cost almost $1 billion in vet bills and lost revenues from stillborn pups, which cannot be sold...
...problems is the emergence of puppy lemon laws in a dozen states, including New York, Massachusetts, California and Florida. If a dog is found to have a debilitating defect, owners can get a refund or a healthy dog in exchange, or they can force the breeder to pay the vet bills to repair a problem...