Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago couple suffered the double indignity of being assaulted and robbed when they tried-in vain-to buy back their dog. To discourage ransom demands, animal-welfare officials in San Francisco have stopped giving the phone numbers of pet losers to callers who report finding animals. Instead, the ASPCA relays the information. Tattooed registration numbers on a dog's skin discourage thieves, but the marking should never be put on the dog's ear. Reason: dognapers might cut off the ear and mail it to the owner as proof they have poor Fido...
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Major hit musicals rarely attract cult followings. Everybody enjoys them. But in the semi-hit ranks, certain shows acquire ardent admirers who tend to feel that their pet musical has certain special qualities that the general audience does not fully appreciate It may be the tuneful charm or sophistication of the score or the sentiments expressed in the book, but such a play becomes a kind of collector's item for theatrical cognoscenti...
...David Steel, thus assuring the Labor government's survival; this actually left the P.M. in a stronger parliamentary position than he has enjoyed for months. The price that Steel extracted was a Liberal voice in the government's legislative program in order to push such Liberal pet policies as devolution for Scotland and proportional balloting in the election of deputies to the European Assembly. With the votes of the 13 Liberal M.P.s, Callaghan's Laborites were able to defeat the opposition-Tories, Scottish and Welsh nationalists, some Ulster Unionists and a sprinkling of other minor parties...
...January 1977, when Mrs. Gandhi called for national elections. To help ensure the program's success, government censors prohibited newspapers from publishing any criticism of family planning. The program was pressed by the governmental bureaucracy, from New Delhi to the district level, and quickly became the pet project of Indira's zealous son, Sanjay...