Word: pet
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...Democrats are staying silent for the moment on the domestic programs Bush would cut in next year's budget. Job training, agriculture and highway construction get big slices, for example. But voters so far acknowledge, at least theoretically, that pet projects will have to suffer for war effort. For the moment, Democrats believe they can draw blood by focusing on Bush's raid of the surpluses in the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. The budget he released last week projects that $1.73 trillion will have to be diverted from the two trust funds to pay for tax cuts...
...John McCain was having dinner with his fellow Senators in the Capitol on Tuesday evening, just before going to the House chamber to hear the State of the Union speech, he was called to the telephone. It was presidential counselor Karen Hughes, telling him that one of his pet ideas--expanding the national volunteer program known as AmeriCorps--was going to be appropriated by the President. In his address Bush would challenge each American to donate 4,000 hours of community service and would announce a new agency called U.S.A. Freedom Corps to marshal the effort. Freedom Corps builds...
...even know we should fear: vintage cars (Christine), Saint Bernards (Cujo), children who worship corn (Children of the Corn). Only now do we learn that what curdles his blood is the idea of ending up a hack. Not exactly the same as being caught after dark in a pet cemetery, but chilling enough to make King, 54, decide to stop publishing at year's end. As he revealed to the Los Angeles Times, his greatest "nightmare" is "finish[ing] up like Harold Robbins," the novelist who churned out books into his 80s. King said he worries about repeating himself, which...
...himself--who for months had been trying to hide a mountain of debt, and started a chain reaction of events that brought down the company. Watkins' letters, along with thousands of other documents, are now in the hands of congressional and criminal investigators who are probing how Enron, its pet-rock auditors at Andersen and a host of other supporting actors allowed the country's seventh largest company to suddenly go bankrupt in December. "I am incredibly nervous that we will implode in a wave of accounting scandals," Watkins wrote of Enron's financial health. "I have heard one manager...
...give her child legitimacy. Kerkorian consented on the condition that Lisa divorce him after a month and waive spousal support. Lisa says Kira's current stipend does not adequately allow the child to maintain a "station of life ...befitting the daughter of Kirk Kerkorian." That goes for her pet rabbit too; Lisa is also asking for $436 a month for her bunny's upkeep...