Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your special issue of Aug. 19 says that I, "like so many others in the Administration, drifted away (Moynihan went off to an ambassadorship in New Delhi after his pet programs were gutted ...)." This makes it sound as if I took this post as a retirement job, or something such. It is not at all the case, and the statement is less than complimentary to the government to which I am accredited...
...cope with his old man's disruptive return from a prospecting expedition, a brother who wants to quit the local high school because Truckie is coming back to it ("you'll be the only student with wrinkles"), and the death of his little sister's favorite pet, Jonathan Livingston Duck. Truckie's method of handling all this would make Walton's mountain collapse. He brawls lustily with his father, and tricks his brother (Mark Hamill) into a return to scholarship. Instead of giving the distraught little girl a homely homily on mortality, he breaks...
...type of advice given by project teams has meant both an increased need and an expanded field of action for people in other fields. Such, at any rate, was the logic behind the changes made in June. The revamped HIID, in fact, seems to have been something of a pet idea of President Bok, who started the policy review that spawned it by appointing Raymond Vernon, Johnson Professor of International Business Management at the Business School, to look into ways in which the University's multiplicity of projects abroad in different disciplines could be consolidated into a co-ordinated structure...
...Harry moves again, with a couple of pieces of battered luggage and his pet tabby Tonto for company. He has plans to see his daughter in Chicago and an idea of perhaps settling down in California with his other son. The film tracks Harry on his transcontinental odyssey and watches with amusement as he slides into a decent compromise with...
...well as powerless. His official function reduced to ritual approval of the military's reforms, Ethiopia's "King of Kings" has little to do but attend daily services of the Coptic Church, visit his aging pride of lions in cages on the palace grounds, and walk his pet Chihuahua...