Word: pets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Just in time for the back-to-school season, for example, is Spit-Wads, a synthetic "tossing dough." The sticky substance, thrown by hand rather than propelled through a straw, was invented by oil-refinery worker Ted Skup. "We got the idea at lunchtime. We were talking about the Pet Rock and things we could sell about $20 million worth of, and it just popped into my head." Skup and a partner started IQCO Inc., which sells packs of Spit-Wads...
...admiral driving freighters." Left to their own devices, Pentagon planners invariably opt for the furthest reaches of technology, seeking machines with almost magical properties. What they usually get are production delays, cost overruns and hardware that never lives up to its advance billing. They are again talking up their pet projects. "The Pentagon sees this crisis as 100% justification for every system it has or wants," says a key Senate staff member...
...Well-heeled subscribers include Dr. Joyce Brothers, Regis Philbin and Sally Jessy Raphael. After Joan Lunden mentioned Lazar's new mail-order catalog on Good Morning America two months ago, 80,000 viewers wrote to request the guide to discount suppliers of everything from wallpaper and pet food to boating equipment and books. Bubbles the publisher: "There is a movement growing in the country, a mini-revolution. Consumers are putting their feet down and refusing to pay high prices...
...sure, Bok in several instances gives well-reasoned and persuasive explanations of some of his pet causes. He reiterates his oft-repeated call for increased internationalization of universities and their student bodies, refuting conservative know-nothings who have argued that this would sap American economic strength...
...speech for the conservative Helms (who frequently snaps at Bush's right ankle), the President warned that "the liberal Democrats want us to make reckless defense cuts." On their pet domestic programs, however, the same liberals "measure progress by dollars spent...