Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agencies-or industry-have rarely had to wield a financial club since the committees themselves are frequently staffed by uncritical scientists. Examples: key parts of a report on lead poisoning were drafted by a chemical company scientist; a subcommittee on dog-and cat-food standards was chaired by a pet food company executive; an aerospace company vice president headed the academy's aeronautics and space board. Such panels occasionally did include "public interest" representatives, but they had little influence. "Industry was pretty much calling the tune," says University of Minnesota Environmentalist Dean Abrahamson, who quit the academy...
...Vaudeville, Charles Lindbergh, the significance of D.H. Lawrence's small head, lists of slang, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, what it felt like to take a fast taxi ride through Manhattan while drunk, other people's family histories, the woman who kept a pet alligator in her bathtub and hypnotized it until it was limp -all are coolly, sometimes gravely considered...
...pinned to the floor on arrival by a Rhodesian ridgeback. A baby lion playfully snapped at the heels of visiting celebrities until finally banished. "It was smelly," says Grace. Now Caroline is content with a couple of horses and her Yorkie, Tif-Tif; they are the safe kind of pet that a mother loves. But Caroline is only biding her time. As she suddenly informed Grace in the middle of a family spat, "I can fool you, Mother, I can fool you any time...
...phases and feelings of a woman's life in a relatively short period. The narrative, so far as there is one, describes Emily's odd, intense relationships with her new guardian, with her lover Gerald (a natural leader who founds a commune), and Hugo her pet, a curious animal with the body of a dog and the face of a cat that seems to suggest the general mutation of the world, including the human race...
...Legislative Branch wants to do to the budget. Senator Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, pointedly wondered how many Congressmen voted for the budget limitation-they ruled that the deficit for fiscal 1976 should not exceed $68.8 billion-while reserving the right to vote for their own pet programs...