Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million debt left over from Democratic Governor Edmund Brown's ad ministration be paid off immediately rather than in installments. He sliced more than $43 million from the budget, based mainly on Brown's programs. When legislators complained at the loss of some of their pet projects, he compromised on some of his cuts, thereby had the $5.09 billion budget accepted with most of his economies intact. Reagan also won a partial victory on his campaign pledge to reduce property taxes by directing $148 million in state funds to local school boards. His tax bill provided...
...neither. Africa-Texas Style! has not enough of the real Africa, less of Texas, and no style at all. It patronizes the natives, shows the beasts in badly edited shots that unconvincingly mix footage of wild lions and tame humans. Tors has even included the ancient anthropomorphism of a pet monkey guzzling beer-which only goes to prove that successful films with monkeys in them can still be counted on the fingers of one foot...
...balance-of-payments problem; Britain, which has already placed a $300 million order for 50 F-llls, now may be forced to buy more of the U.S.-made fighters as substitutes for its own. As De Gaulle is only too well aware, that would strengthen one of his pet arguments for keeping Britain out of the Common Market: that Britain is overly reliant for its defense needs...
...remaining third is made up of taped interviews and movies-mostly in color -made recently on his seven-acre dacha, Petrovo Dalneye, on the Moskva River, 18 miles west of Moscow. U.S. viewers will see Nikita Sergeevich building small bonfires (a hobby), romping with his grandchildren, playing with his pet Alsatian, munching grapes on the front porch, peering through binoculars over walls that separate him from the rest of the world, dining with his wife Nina. "He looks," said NBC News Vice President Donald V. Meaney, "like a little old man watching life...
...window, and action is as fragmented as a cracked kaleidoscope. The casual reader may well have trouble telling one anti-novelist from another, but in the case of Marguerite Duras, the problem is simple: she is the only natural writer. The others construct fiction to demonstrate a pet theory. She writes about people and their moods with incomparable ease and sensuality...