Word: pet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coming your way in time for the fall elections: speeches and ribbon cuttings for more than 1,800 pet projects tucked into the $203 billion highway law signed by President Clinton last week. Among the goodies Congress plucked from the pork barrel...
...ever after. Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit, by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, hit the top of the best-seller lists in 1995 and spawned a series of sequels--Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul, for the Pet-Lover's Soul, for the Teenage Soul, for the Soul at Work, ad nauseam--that together have sold more than an astounding 28 million copies. (Suggestion for a new title: Chicken Soup for the Souls of 33 Publishers Who Really, Really Screwed Up.) The Chicken Soup product line...
Meanwhile, one of Fineberg's pet projects hangsin the lurch, the inter-faculty initiatives of theUniversity Fund...
...first of these areas was information technology (IT), a pet project for his entire term which has had its most concrete effects in Project ADAPT--a grinding initiative to centralize all University accounting. He spoke briefly about the possibilities for IT's extension into educational tools: "It takes a lot of thought...
...leapfrog" low-skill industries, which would have given needed employment to the country's vast mass of unskilled laborers, and move straight into expensive high-tech ventures. The billions of dollars of public money he spent on his strategic companies did little to advance industrial development. His most extravagant pet project, a $2 billion attempt to build an indigenous aircraft, the propeller-driven N-250, was deprived of state funding as a condition of IMF assistance...