Word: breed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frick's comment is yet another reminder that in a capitalist society, even love has price. One night caution the citizens of Indianapolis nor to grow too attached to their Colts, as the Irsays of the world are a fickle breed, and a booming city like Phoenix or San Jose will always be beckoning with an eager checkbook. Of course, Indianapolisites will learn soon enough what price love demands: the average tab for a day at the Hoosier Dome this fall will be about $25. It the newest Colts lovers don't have that kind of money, they can always...
Researchers could breed greyhound dogs specifically for experiments if the greyhound bill is passed. Hunt estimated that it would cost Harvard $600 to raise a single...
...funds were cut by more than-one-third, including a 44 percent reduction in job programs. Naturally, unemployment on the reservations jumped from 30 percent to over 50 percent. Reaganomics, it appears, means subsidy for the affluent and self-determination for the poor. We have invented an entirely new breed of fortunate victims: the starving free...
Officials of the South Carolina children's bureau, which handles official adoptions, charge that the insatiable demand for newborn babies and the state's laissez-faire attitude have spawned a new breed of ambulance chaser. These are the "bassinet hounds" who, in some cases, pursue unwed mothers all the way into the delivery room. Complains Francis Lewis, executive director of the children's bureau: "It used to be that we said, 'Here is a child who needs a home.' Now it is 'Here's a childless couple, let's go find...
...Mikhail Gorbachev, 52, represents a new breed of better-educated Soviet technocrat. The son of peasants from the rich farming region of Stavropol in southwest Russia, Gorbachev holds a law degree from Moscow State University and another degree in agronomy from the Stavropol Agricultural Institute. His knowledge of farming, the weak link in Soviet economic planning, won him a place in the Secretariat and catapulted him into the Politburo's inner circle at the tender age of 49. Continuing failures on the farm have cut short the careers of past agricultural experts, but Gorbachev appears to be flourishing even though...