Word: veterinarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several states, NCPAC commercials were kept off the air by victims' complaints that they were misleading or outright false, prompting NCPAC to file a federal suit charging censorship. Democratic Senator John Melcher, a veterinarian, countered a New Right commercial claiming he was "too liberal for Montana" with a TV ad of his own featuring cows. After a shot of "out-of-staters" carrying a briefcase full of money off a plane, one bemused bovine remarks, "Did ya hear about those city slickers bad-mouthing Doc Melcher? One of 'em was stepping in what they've been trying...
...hard enough. A private investigator hired by the physicians in Puerto Rico reported that he found it easy to buy restricted veterinary drugs containing estrogen, including DES. "They say it's not for sale here," says Sáenz, "but there was plenty where he bought it." Indeed, Veterinarian Jose Diez of the commonwealth department of agriculture confirms that "all the large pharmaceutical companies and distributors peddle their wares to the breeders, not only estrogen but also antibiotics." What is worse, says Diez, "our breeders have no idea how to use them...
Melcher, 58, a veterinarian and ex-Congressman, argues that his contributors represent such a broad array of interests that it would be impossible to cater to them all, even if he were so inclined. He charges that Williams too is benefiting from an out-of-state political-action committee, if indirectly. The National Conservative Political Action Committee has targeted Melcher for defeat and has spent $200,000 in the Montana race...
...Carolinas to Florida experienced less good fortune. Georgia apple farmers, worried about low temperatures of 22° in the northern mountains where about half the state's $4 million apple crop is grown, sprayed their orchards with water to form protective ice around the buds. Iowa State University Veterinarian John Herrick, noting that testicular frostbite can interfere with sperm production, urged ranchers to check their bulls for sterility. But for some the weather proved a financial boon. Ski-resort operators in New Jersey and New Hampshire, with a foot of new snow, extended their seasons...
...order and called for the reinstatement of hanging. Labor's candidate was bearded portly Community Worker David Wiseman, 34, who became a creditable candidate after the party persuaded him to leave at home ther earring he customarily wore. Scottish Nationalist George Leslie, 45, was a popular local veterinarian who harped on the fact that Jenkins was an outsider from England...