Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FIRST OF FOUR Harvard Summer Theater productions is a lost dog. Well, perhaps not lost--the Loeb's Experimental Theater is a comfortable home for The Dog Beneath the Skin--but the play is certainly without an owner...
...Their tiny, one-line display screens are better for solving engineering problems or showing long strings of numbers than for serious writing or business programming, and their calculator-type keyboards are much harder to master than those of larger desktop computers. But they remind some users of the proverbial dog walking on its hind legs: what is surprising is not how well they work, but that they work at all. One U.S. insurance company is considering buying 25,000 of Matsushita's $380 HHC model to let its salesmen calculate premiums right before potential customers' eyes...
Regardless of the court's ruling, the opposition movement has begun to shift to a watch-dog stance, accepting an operating plant as a reality but refusing to believe that it will be safe. Dr. John G. Hermos, co-chairman of the NOMATEP coalition, said recently. Hermos added that his group will mount a new campaign of monitoring pollution levels in amassing related data in hopes of pressuring state authorities to enact new restrictions on the plant...
...review describes Max's good-guy dog as a gray-eyed mutt that is fearless and faithful. As the owner of an Australian cattle dog, I know that these animals are indeed fearless and faithful, but definitely not mutts. They are the latest breed to be recognized by the American Kennel Club and were bred to herd and drive the cattle that range over thousands of square miles of the Australian bush...
Their package tour had popped in upon a waste of once mystical inaccessibility, the place that Peary's dog sled struggled to in 1909. The tourists landed on an abstraction and almost fell through the top of the world. They sat for a few hours like a family stuck on a freeway with engine trouble, and then another plane came and drove them back...