Word: cougar
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...crowds who turn out on New Year's Eve may not be inclined to come back on caucus day. And, as many candidates have learned, entertainment and politics generally don't mix well - most recently John Edwards got booed when he took the stage at a Des Moines John Cougar Mellencamp concert. People will spend good money to have fun, or attend a rally to learn something, but few would enjoy a stumping politician encroaching on their paid entertainment...
...There are some people who live in Idaho, next to a national park, who've called in: their cats will undoubtedly have been killed by something larger than themselves. They're a delicious snack, for anything from a hawk to a cougar to a raccoon. For [other cat owners,] the No. 1 killer of cats is cars. The average lifespan of an indoor-outdoor cat is seven years. The average lifespan of an indoor cat is 21 years. So that pretty much says it. Outside, you have feral cats carrying disease; you have dogs that attack; you have cars, cars...
...loves you because you're easy. Perfectly timed, impeccably organized and unfailingly kind to all varieties of movies, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has become the industry's hottest festival ticket by acting as a kind of supportive, low-maintenance girlfriend. Unlike its major festival sisters - that sexy cougar Cannes, 60, and parka-clad hipster Sundance, 29 - Toronto, 32, is inclusive, friendly and even prettier once you get to know...
...Cougar run–sparked by back-to-back three-pointers from Cassie King and Haley Hall–put the game securely in BYU’s hands. The Cougars helped themselves with 60 percent shooting from the floor in the second frame, but more Harvard turnovers didn’t hurt their cause, either...
...unfortunately and inaccurately-named genre—calling New Jersey part of the “heartland” raises both geographic and normative issues—popular in the early to mid-1980s, is usually defined by down-home folks like Springsteen, Tom Petty, and John Cougar Mellencamp: artists who wrote tender blue-collar tales of broken American dreams and perseverance over folksy rock backings, not maudlin anecdotes over bubbling synth lines...