Word: pet
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...waiting--which the former Exxon chemical engineer doesn't like to do. Peers at Exxon dubbed Krouse "Iceman" because the Natchez, Miss., native once traveled to Naperville, Ill., in December for training that could have waited until spring. Eventually, in 2001, Krouse says, he was fired for pushing a pet chemical-engineering project too hard...
...already have a terminology for our better halves - spouses, husbands, wives. But because Michael and I couldn?t marry, calling him my ?spouse? was a lie. So I always introduced him as my ?partner? and put my hand around his waist, to show we didn?t just run a pet store or a restaurant or a Hollywood studio together. I also showed pictures of our two beautiful cats (wait a second, do we sound like ?longtime companions...
...reauthorize his No Child Left Behind Act, which uses tests to make schools accountable for their performance. But when Bush visited a classroom-the kids were doing a project about thunderstorms-all I could think about was that other classroom, the one in Florida, where he was reading My Pet Goat when the news came on the morning of Sept...
James Dyson--inventor, self-promoter and Britain's most famous vacuum salesman--constantly seeks minor irritations. If the batteries in your hand vacuum go dead just when you need it, you plug it in to recharge and grab a broom, right? Not Dyson. If pet hair clogs the vac and ruins its suction, you open it and clear it out. Dyson embarks on a research project. To him, these issues aren't minor, and they're not irritations. They're business opportunities...
...last Republican votes they needed to pass a bill to provide an expensive prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program. Far more than in the past, they brought bills to the floor with no chance of amendment and allowed the normal appropriations process to be circumvented so that pet projects could be funded without scrutiny. When DeLay faced indictment by a Texas grand jury, Hastert changed the Republican rules so that DeLay could stay on as leader--though in the ensuing outcry, he had to reverse himself. Hastert was successful, however, in purging the ethics committee of its chairman...