Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more days to expand to--began to drink a lot, too. They sat, dry of new ideas, among mounds of cuisinards, trash mashers, yogurt-makers, decorator cologne sets, soap-on-a-rope, leisure suits, pulsating shower heads, vibrabeds, three-dimensional chess sets, digital watches, coffee-table pictorial history books, pet rocks, ant farms, pastel toothpicks, statuettes inscribed "world's greatest mom" and world's greatest dad," incense holders, lava lamps, shampoos smelling like exotic fruit, toy rifles with plastic arsenals big enough to defeat plastic armies, desk organizers, and of course metal-and-plastic Christmas trees. And they...
This year's answer to the pet rock is a direct result of the nation's fuel crisis. This rock is called, originally enough, "Alumpa" coal. What's so special about Alumpa coal, you ask? "Pride," the brochure explains. "Regular everyday filthy coal gets no respect. Alumpa coal's gem quality demands admiration." Yeah...
Liberals find it ironic that referendums, propositions and local initiatives are being used effectively by conservatives who want to get their pet causes onto the ballot without a party label. The conservatives have an additional advantage, argues M.I.T. Political Science Professor Walter Dean Burnham: "Voters today are not interested in changing anything because they've been traumatized by too much change." In this view, what started more than 60 years ago as a movement for change has evolved into a force for stability, and thus for conservatism. "The Progressives," says Burnham wryly, "must be turning over in their graves...
Charles M. Pierce 75, the black candidate and the only challenger on the slate, was on the committee between 1971 and 1975. After 17 years of industrial employment, Pierce went to the Harvard Extension School for an A.B. in education. His pet program while on the School Committee was occupational education...
...defeat for Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long (see following story), who has emerged as a pivotal figure in the battle. But it was only a temporary defeat. Immediately after approving the use tax, the Senate voted to give Long almost complete freedom to push some of his pet energy ideas?most notably huge tax benefits to the oil and gas industries to encourage production?in the House-Senate conference committee that is trying to reconcile differences between the two chambers...