Word: meow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York, feline adoptions from animal shelters have zoomed 30% in the past three or four years. Cats are also becoming a factor in the American economy. Owners will shell out $1.4 billion for 1 million tons of cat food that carry such whisker-licking names as Meow Mix and Tender Vittles. These processed delights consist largely of soybean, corn and wheat. One hundred eighty-nine million dollars' worth of cat-box filler will inevitably follow. Revenues to veterinarians, animal psychologists, pet shops and grooming parlors will add even more millions. All of this must be added to the initial...
...chosen to show you can do something with a building that's not the cat's meow," he said...
...take all of these things, go to the nation and really keep reaching them. I think that Carter came back with the answer, "Well, I've already laid it all out, I laid it all out--you remember--three years ago, and you made fun of me, calling it 'meow,' and it turns out I was right." This is where the self-righteousness, the belief in self, and a certain...edginess, a certain tension came over. Defensiveness. He somehow thinks that, if he lays it all out, they'll understand and they'll act--that that...