Word: pets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Friedman has entertained the Clintons at his Martha's Vineyard home, where the First Couple first met Friedman's pet pig, Henrietta. The pig provided the inspiration for Mamet's children's story as well as for the hotel restaurant--Henrietta's Table--where the book signing took place...
Friedman is a friend of Mamet's, and the title character of Mamet's book, Henrietta the pig, is named after a pet pig Friedman kept at his Martha's Vineyard estate for many years...
...this is no ordinary baby. It's a virtual tot that crawls around on your computer screen after you install the PC CD-ROM called Babyz by Mindscape ($30). And why not? If we can practice our nurturing skills feeding Tamagotchis, tickling Furbies and ordering our pet robots around, surely we can "adopt" a virtual baby or two. After naming your bundle of software joy, you can pop it into the changing room for a bath and dress it in impossibly cute bunny suits that come in every flavor from powder blue to tie-dye. Next, try your luck...
...Wednesday deadline began to look a little unrealistic Tuesday as White House and congressional negotiators hunkered down to bridge the gaps between them over spending on education, law enforcement and the U.N. While both sides could concede a couple of million here and there to the other's pet causes, the margin for horse trading is considerably diminished by the bipartisan consensus on fiscal discipline...
...spend, the dispute is over how to spend it: The GOP wants additional spending to take the form of block grants to the states; the White House insists on federal control. Rather than dig in their heels, the Republicans have tended to sign off on some of Clinton's pet projects but then insert riders that the President may find politically tricky...