Word: gerbils
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Education Secretary Baker and other Conservatives insist that GERBIL's tough provisions can in fact rejuvenate the system. The act's advocates believe tenure denial and early pensioning of redundant older faculty will lop off academic deadwood, thus freeing money to reward universities that focus on the government's priority fields. Specifically, by 1990 the Thatcher government wants 35% more science graduates and 25% more engineers than in 1980. These, say government officials, are the skills that Britain requires to compete in international markets...
...stars through the plastic skylight of the tent he's designed. But when the unexpected baby boom comes, Stan is flummoxed: "Maybe we could put it up for abortion?" And when he determines to keep the child, his father (Kenneth Mars) reminds him: "You had a gerbil last year. You forgot to feed it. It died...
Penina the gerbil is certainly one party animal, says her owner Gary. One day the sophomore placed a couple of drops of Jack Danielsin her water saucer. "We asked her if she would like a drink and she didn't say no. She gobbled it up and then spun around a bit," he laughs...
...Gerbils Penina and Menachim were both named after children Gary met while life guarding over the summer. Penina's namesake, says Gary, was a little girl "with pigtails that looked like gerbil ears and teeth that...
...gerbil is nothing like the girl, he adds, saying that his pet is "the Harvard gerbil--she got in early action...