Word: pet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These early machines had a lot in common with pet rocks, however. They mostly just sat there. Unlike the ever-expandable IBM PC, you were limited in what you could do with them. Eventually, people got bored and bought more powerful machines--like the IBM PC and its clones...
Foley said all he could see was a four-foot high snow drift slumped against the neighboring house. But Foley, wondering why his normally reserved pet would be so excited, opened the gate between the two homes...
...spokesperson for Queen Elizabeth II on the loss of the queen's pet flamingos to a fox. Only six of the birds were actually killed by the fox, but the seventh bird died of shock...
...screenplay form. There was a lot of the sour old writer too in the dark vitality of the newspaper scenes, the habit of looking down on men in high places, the name of young Herman's bicycle: Rosebud. The two men privately insisted it was Hearst's pet name for Marion's sex. But that could be an impish trick, just as the whole Rosebud plot is--since, on the evidence of the film, no one heard Kane's dying word, so no one could search for its meaning...
Specifically, participants in the study engaged in various visually-based activities while a PET machine scanned their brains. Unlike other studies in Sweden and France, where spontaneous visualization of individuals was not taken into account, the Harvard researchers took careful steps to include this effect in their data. As a control, they scanned the brains of subjects told to rest with their eyes closed in a dark room...