Word: pet
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...Often used as a doggie playplace by urban pet owners, this enclosed area may occasionally contain—ahem—remnants of previous canine users...
...article of faith in Washington - and in London - that if terrorists ever possess weapons of mass destruction, they will use them. Hence states that have connections to terrorism must not be permitted such weapons. Within that framework, encouraging the development of democratic structures in the Middle East - the pet project of some neoconservatives in the Administration - is a way of advancing the primary policy. Citizens of states with legitimate channels for political expression are less likely, the argument goes, to be swayed into the terrorists' camp. In other words, if there were a group of democratic states in the Middle...
...scene, Chung plays the teacher’s pet in a medical class, responding confidently and astutely to her teacher’s question: “This type of patient has a common characteristic,” she declares. “There is a definite difference.” Interestingly, the advertisement chose to draw attention away from Chung’s anthropology concentration and toward her pre-med status...
College affordability has long been a pet issue for McKeon, who chairs the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Twenty-first Century Competitiveness...
Nobody was paying attention to Tim Berners-Lee and his pet idea. He was a young British scientist at CERN, a high-energy physics lab in Geneva, and he had a radical new way for scientists to share data by linking documents to one another over the Internet. He had kicked around a few different names for it, including the "Infomesh" and the "Information Mine." But he wasn't getting much interest from his bosses. His proposal came back with the words "vague but exciting" written across the cover...