Word: pets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Samurai, it was quite a blast. We filled a huge hole in the back yard with imported beers and all dressed up like Japanese things. I was a karaoke machine. It was one of the best costumes. I carried a tape of myself playing the music to the Pet Song I wrote while people sang along. My date was a lot of fun. Remember Michelle White from a few letters ago? She is turning out to be pretty cool...
...stumbled through the '80s, many people asked questions about Smith's competence. But GM's directors raised nary a public peep about the executive who was leading them downhill. The reason is simple, said Ross Perot, who was on the board at the time. "Smith has a Pet Rock board of directors." Bob Stempel was not so lucky...
Female breasts, he says, may also influence irregularities on thallium stress tests; simply put, the breast tissue gets in the way of the imaging technique. Doctors at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City have apparently circumvented that problem by using the PET (positron-emission tomography) scan, which they say is highly accurate in detecting even minor heart damage in women...
...opted for a collage of old transistors and fence wiring. It's all avant-garde, you see, and dreadfully modish. I must admit, I marvelled at the array of newspaper clippings on the floor, and was in the middle of reading one particular item--about the demise of the pet hamster--when my escort forcibly removed me into our seats, muttering about the shame...
...Clinton's debate performance was equal to the demand, if not much more. He managed to curb his pet-student tendency to show off all he knows and try to cram six points into an answer to a question that really requires only two. He was dignified and well informed, had his points in order and managed to sound and look at least as presidential as Bush. Though Perot's witticisms clearly won the first debate, Clinton was equally clearly the winner of the second, partly because it followed a format that he suggested and had already mastered: questions from...