Word: pet
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Some fellow Senators, however, wonder whether Roth, 74, is up to the Finance Committee job. He has always been strong on big ideas but weak on the details. Roth goes nowhere without an aide conversant in the substance of even his pet issues. When visitors come to his office, he has demonstrated more interest in showing them the framed photos of his beloved Saint Bernards than in twisting arms and cutting deals. But Republicans must deliver on their promise to bring the budget into balance or face an even angrier electorate. And the Finance panel is where much of that...
...return for keeping the tapes out of court, that he used the word nigger on three occasions in the past 10 years. And at worst, depending on what portions of the tapes, if any, Ito permits the jury to hear, Fuhrman has breathed life into the defense's pet theory: that Simpson is an innocent victim of a racist police conspiracy. Former Los Angeles district attorney Ira Reiner explains: "It is not that the tapes should influence the case by any objective standard. The issue is subjective importance. They will overwhelm the jury. If those tapes come in-and they...
Hughes seems to think the arts and humanities should be exempt from the same vigorous scrutiny that virtually every other part of the federal budget is undergoing. When we have a national debt of nearly $5 trillion, it is the height of arrogance to believe that anyone's pet programs should be sacred cows. This view, by the way, is not the partisan attack Hughes would have readers believe. Even the Progressive Policy Institute, an arm of the Democratic Leadership Council, stated in its 1993 Mandate for Change that it opposed federal funding for the arts and humanities...
...1970s, has been rising sharply since 1979. No one knows for sure what is behind the increase, but a prime suspect is the greater amount of time people spend in tightly sealed, air-conditioned workplaces and homes, where they are exposed to such indoor irritants as dust mites and pet dander...
...reminds the fervent budget cutters that back in 1985 he engineered the only across-the-board cut of federal programs (including a freeze on Social Security) that the Senate has ever passed-only to be undercut by Ronald Reagan. Last week Dole tried to push through one of his pet projects: easing regulations on business, a measure that is designed to appeal to conservative hard-liners. But when it comes to meat inspections and water-quality standards, his party is on the wrong side in the polls, and Democrats had the votes to force Dole into setting the bill aside...