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...foundation of our constitutional system of checks and balances," says Senator Robert Byrd, who is legendary for directing wasteful spending to West Virginia. Byrd predicts that Presidents will use the measure to blackmail members of Congress into rubber-stamping White House plans out of fear for their own pet projects. That worry isn't entirely off the wall--Presidents play politics too--but it's more likely that Congress will adopt another pattern. To solidify support at home, members can be expected to fund all kinds of junk, secure in the knowledge that the President will torpedo their profligacy...
...site features photos of the magazine's Pet of the Month, in addition to a Forum section that contains letters relating sexual exploits and fantasies, according to a Penthouse press release...
...White Balloon" is the story of a seven-year-old child who, on the eve of the Persian New Year, sees a beautiful goldfish in a pet shop window. Fish are an elemental part of the Persian New Year celebration, which occurs on the first day of spring and lasts for thirteen days. The goldfish in the pet shop is expensive for the family's rather modest income. But with the help of her brother, the little girl, Razieh (Aida Mohammadkhani), convinces her mother to buy the fish for their New Year ceremony...
These early machines had a lot in common with pet rocks, however. They mostly just sat there. Unlike the ever-expandable IBM PC, you were limited in what you could do with them. Eventually, people got bored and bought more powerful machines--like the IBM PC and its clones...
Foley said all he could see was a four-foot high snow drift slumped against the neighboring house. But Foley, wondering why his normally reserved pet would be so excited, opened the gate between the two homes...