Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former IBM vice president who heads his own economic consulting firm: " To get inflation under control, everyone has to sacrifice. There has to be a willingness by the public to forgo tax relief, tolerate tighter money, and not put tremendous pressure on the Government to step up spending for pet programs." Adds Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president of Chicago's Harris Bank: "The key question is, what happens when unemployment starts moving up to 7% or 7.5%? Will the Administration have the guts to hang in with a moderate policy that provides some long-term hope that we will...
...thrown away. Yet almost half of the girls (and an almost as large percentage of the boys) currently in child detention facilities are serving time for crimes no more serious than truancy or running away from home. The bureaucrats in Washington call such juveniles "status offenders"; one of the pet projects of the Department of Justice is to "de-institutionalize" these inmates. They've allocated all sorts of post-Proposition 13 taxpayer dollars to combat the status offender problem, but so far very little of it has made its way out of Washington...
...impressive gains in the amount allocated for mental health research. Taking inflation into account, she pointed out, research spending has declined in the past decade. But Kennedy got in the last word. He promised to study Rosalynn's recommendations carefully and, echoing one of Jimmy Carter's pet campaign phrases, added: "To quote a great American, 'You can depend...
...life-styles is best viewed in the kaleidoscope of scenes each evening at sunset. Many Northern tourists stroll from the boutiques and galleries of renovated Duval Street to the Mallory Square dock to soak up the impromptu theater-jugglers, bands, ventriloquists, and an iguana man who lets children pet the iguanas he walks on a leash. As the sun disappears below the horizon, the crowd applauds. Tourists now outnumber the youths and leftover hippies who founded sunset watching on the dock as a communal mystical experience a decade ago. The easy movers are now more likely to spend the twilight...
...animals in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy inexplicably went berserk. Dogs began barking and howling, cats ran into the streets, and hens refused to roost. Mice and rats scurried out of their hiding places and ran in circles. Horses and cows fidgeted in their stalls. Pet birds flapped their wings and emitted agonizing calls, almost as if they sensed what was about to occur. At 9 o'clock that night, the Friuli area was jolted by a major earthquake...