Word: pet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...themost introspective of the bunch. As its up-tempobeat slowly fades in, Wareman plays a floatingwah-wah guitar line and sings about a woman hecan't get out of his mind: "Things you said lingeron/ Hanging in the air/ And they will not goaway." He turns to his pet for support: "I look atmy dog/ We're both confused/ I love Septemberbest/ And I feel like I should move...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, who has taken on the renovations as his pet projects says his vision for the scheme goes beyond a mere student center...
...wealthy schools with generous alumni, the issue boils down to setting priorities for fund-raising dollars. Most contributors don't care where their dollars go within the different faculties. Some of the larger ones do. In this case, the amounts involved are so low that big contributors' pet projects needn't be discouraged. But in the future, deans should not be afraid to encourage these alumni to contribute not to flashy projects but to basic, day-to-day budgets and student services...
...other material, less than 2% of waste plastic gets recycled. Largely this is because it is cumbersome and expensive to separate the seven basic types and relatively cheap simply to manufacture virgin plastics. Wellman Inc., of Shrewsbury, New Jersey, has emerged as a leader in recycling so-called PET bottles, the most common clear plastic containers for liquid, turning discarded ones into furniture textiles, tennis * balls, electrical equipment and yarn for polyester carpet. The Coca-Cola Co. services major markets nationwide with two-liter bottles made of 25% recycled PET plastic...
...inanimate objects. Nor could she assign physical attributes to animals -- she could not, for example, answer the question "What color is an elephant?" Yet she could answer nonphysical questions, about whether a given animal lived on land or in the sea, or whether it was normally kept as a pet. And when shown a picture of, say, a lion with a horse's head, she could tell right away that the two didn't match...