Peachey, 43, an Amishman who lives with his wife and seven children on a three-acre spread in Belleville, said he thought long and hard about whether he wanted to remain in the business of breeding and selling Yorkshire and Boston terriers, Maltese, and “morkies” (a trendy Yorkie-Maltese mix).

Like many fire brigade men I have met, he is alert, very triggerish on the subject of fire risks, and warm-hearted. If the men in the Fire Service were not humane, more than anything else, they would not be in so risky an occupation.

A plurality of ideas were put forth at the meeting, most of which were rejected out of hand.

Kocura [18] presented a detailed study of inchoactive and causative situations using conceptual graphs.