Word: pet
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Tipper Gore's pick for President didn't win, but there's hope yet for her pet cause. As Congress considers legislation granting parity for insurance coverage of mental health disorders and medical problems, President Bush is urging lawmakers to send him a bill by Memorial...
When I was a Senate Page boy long ago in the 1950s, my boss was Lyndon Johnson's young pet lizard, Bobby Baker. Senator Johnson would snap his fingers softly, and I would hustle to the cooler in the Democratic cloakroom to bring him a glass of White Rock sparkling water or dash down the marble back stairs to the Senate restaurant to fetch a dish of vanilla ice cream, which he ate at his desk on the Senate floor as he played his mighty legislative Wurlitzer...
...sure to attract the support of the disgruntled student body? If he concentrated on bettering student space, perhaps we would be renovating the Malkin Athletic Center to more efficiently use its largely wasted space. If he made study abroad—which the Faculty brought up—his pet peeve, he could expedite its expansion even further and maybe make it better than competitors’ offerings...
...deeper philosophical theme. The well-known story of Penelope, for example, is turned on its heels as Stallings reflects on relationships and fidelity; In a poem entitled “The Dogdom of the Dead,” Stallings draws some remarkable parallels between the deceased and pet dogs in order to reflect on how we are affected by the death of loved ones...
...often does wrong. The Osbournes is the oldest thing on TV since the test pattern: a nuclear family that eats meals together, shares its problems (even if every third word is bleeped) and survives wacky scenarios. The family dogs are peeing on the carpets, so they call in a pet therapist! Jack goes to a hippie sleep-away camp and hates it! (Kelly: "They make you feed a tree before you feed yourself." Ozzy: "How the f___ do you feed a tree? Put out a ham sandwich?") But the show violates the conventions that make so many sitcoms so, well...