Word: pet
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Until Jan. 26, all you needed to know about dogs in San Francisco was this: though most landlords won't allow them, most dotcoms will, and pet shelters won't kill them if they're at all adoptable. But that Friday Diane Whipple, 33, a lacrosse coach, stepped out of the elevator in her tony Pacific Heights apartment building with her shopping bags. She was set upon by Bane and Hera, 123-lb. and 112-lb. Presa Canarios belonging to the two attorneys down the hall. By the time the police arrived and rushed her to the hospital...
...assuming as it does the right to boil down someone's persona to a sole characteristic--and then legitimize it through repeated use. Of course, Bush has been shrewd in his choices--while sometimes bawdy, his nicknames are rarely pejorative--and he understands that for most people, a pet name suggests intimacy, a special relationship that in fact may be entirely phony...
...wound back down the hill and parked before a temple with a giant sculpture of a reclining Buddha. The temple didn't have much in the way of meditative calm. Before the Buddha stood two pretty girls in cotton-candy dresses who for $1.20 posed for photos with their pet python. It was curled up miserably in a basin with its mouth taped shut. Next to them were two more girls with a peacock. Downstairs at the entrance, shops offered a narrow but highly popular selection of souvenirs: jade bracelets, packets of ginseng and hard-core pornographic VCDs...
...look at what Mandelson did [making calls to a government department on behalf of a citizenship applicant who had made a large donation to a pet project of the Labor government], it doesn't appear to be obvious influence-peddling. On the other hand, he wouldn't have made that phone call for just anybody. But the important thing is that he misled his colleagues, whether deliberately or inadvertently. And he didn't follow the advice he always gives others, which is to get all your facts lined up before going to press. In fact he infuriated Blair and other...
...Because the economy is great - never better, according to some. Public finances are in great shape, the government has a big surplus, growth is high and there's no sign of inflation. Conservative Party leader William Hague has not caught the country's imagination. They've got some pet issues, such as rising crime and opposition to Britain adopting Euro. But the government is not giving them very much of a target. There may be a lower turnout in this election, and Blair's margin of victory may be smaller in light of creeping disillusion among many voters who voted...