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Once an unlikely draft pick, Minard is now an early-to-mid second-rounder.

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Toronto wants him in for a workout Tuesday, but Minard is wavering.

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Gates called Minard "a brother officer" whose death "does strike fear into the heart of officers on the street."

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The influx of high school athletes and college underclassmen into the draft pushes seniors such as Minard and those from schools with big names down further.

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"Minard," she remarked, "has only a town-house and invested capital, whereas we shall have all that and a country-place besides; one can't be really rich without it."

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But the company occasionally had to send four-truck convoys out on the rough drive because Minard had to comply with the hygiene rule for the women.

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"So rules like that really would have to change," Minard said.

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Michael Minard , predicted that the exclusion will be lifted, and female officers eventually will gain positions like his.

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Getty Images A drilling team from Minard Run Oil Company pull out steel pipe during a fracking operation at a 2100 foot natural gas well in Pleasant Valley, Pennsylvania in 2008.

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Getty Images A Minard Run Oil Company drilling team lowers steel pipe sections into a recently drilled 2100 foot gas well to "notch" the side walls before a high pressure fracturing takes place in Pleasant Valley, Pennsylvania in 2008.

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