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Suffering from rot, or waterlogged
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He has ruled mostly against the league for 18 years; during his term in office, Commissioner Roger Goodell has soothed his Doty acid reflux with doses of Prilosec, a league sponsor.
"No dog has ever said a word," Doty writes in this memoir of his retrievers, Arden and Beau, "but that doesn't mean they live outside the world of speech".
Doty later wrote, "Epidemic was the central fact of the community in which I lived".
Acting as an "interpreter," which he calls "part of the pet owner's work," Doty traces his relationship with his dogs from 1994, when his partner died, of AIDS, through five peripatetic years when he was a guest professor at various colleges, to the dogs' final days, in New York around the time of September 11th.
A tender and amusing portrait of the dogs emerges — on the beach, Arden is like a "barrel-chested" old man in Miami; Beau loves baked beans and is never still, except when sleeping, curled up "like a golden hedgehog" — and Doty brilliantly captures the qualities that make dogs endearing.
Doty, the judicial arch-nemesis of the league, seems poised to penalize it harshly.
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Jim Doty, a former SEC general counsel, and a lawyer for the Bush family, is another.
Rick Doty, the president of the local United Auto Workers union, has a Barack Obama commemorative plate on his desk and big hopes for the stimulus.
James Doty, its chairman, says that "We see [auditors] as professional people subject to pressures to compromise their independence".
James Doty, the PCAOB's chairman, has called this "a gaping hole in investor protection".Legitimate operators yes, they exist complain that all Chinese "small-cap" shares are being tarred with the same brush.
James Doty, the agency's boss, says China may now be willing to let his inspectors tag along during Chinese audits.
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