Word: pet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...purse is Congress's most effective weapon, and the House last week wielded it like a double-bladed sword. Although the House approved George Bush's request for $291 billion in total military spending next year, its version of the 1992 defense-spending bill axed the President's pet B-2 Stealth bomber program and drastically cut funding for his Strategic Defense Initiative antiballistic-missile project...
...sing the praises of their town to "Bill, Bill, Bill and Mike," four strangers identified only as "top level" executives of a "really big company" in another city. The meeting went well. Ten months after Bill, Bill, Bill and Mike took a look around, H.J. Heinz moved its Pet Products subsidiary from Long Beach, Calif., to Cincinnati...
...California legislators, makes attendance at biennial ethics courses mandatory for all state legislators and their staff members. It is probably the first time that an entire legislature has been sent back to school. Typically, Josephson asked participants to enact real-life situations that involve moral dilemmas. A pet example: When a senator is invited to speak out of town, is it proper for the sponsoring group to pay for the air fare and hotel bills of his family? Josephson explains that while such perks may be legal, they are not ethical because they have the appearance of skirting...
...Democratic candidate should slam Bush for breaking a slew of promises to protect the environment (Gore's pet issue) and to increase funding for education (Clinton's). The Democrats should continue to fight for stronger gun control laws, especially now that Ronald Reagan has partially relented on the issue. The popular Dukakis plan to extend health insurance to the 37 million uninsured Americans could also be revived...
...factoids ("Did you know there are 99.3 million cows in the U.S.?") or speaking Japanese with the high school principal, he is making a general pest of himself with the family down the block. He is especially smitten with their 15-year-old daughter Laura, whom he showers with pet names ("Hi, my little Jell-O mold") to no avail. One night he even shows up outside her bedroom window to woo her with an accordion serenade of Feelings...