Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sweeping Reversal. Johnson, worried that the unexpected loss of all of these minor taxes would invite countless other Senators to propose their own pet repeal ideas in Senate debate and unbalance the whole package, expressed his "deep concern" to Byrd and other committee members. With one sweeping motion, the committee then reversed its action on all of the excise taxes, thus restoring them. The vote was 9 to 8, with Byrd backing Johnson. Also lost was a proposed repeal of the 10% theater admissions tax. But the $50 million hike in oil-firm taxes survived. The house has voted...
...workday of Pet Milk President Theodore R. Gamble frequently begins at 5:30 a.m. in a duck blind near his St. Louis home, and he has been known to spend two hours shooting before he drives to the office. Even in a blind, Gamble follows his fetish for utilizing time; when no ducks appear, he runs through paperwork or reviews Pet's problems with invited aides. Such attention to time has carried bright, youthful (39) Ted Gamble a long way in a little bit of it. He abandoned a Wall Street career to help save 79-year-old Pet...
...totalitarian Communist regime which still succeeds in keeping these peoples locked up will gradually come to an evolution compatible with our own transformation. Then there would be open to Europe, as a whole, prospects in keeping with its resources and its capabilities." His immediate goal was, no doubt, his pet Europe des patries (Europe of the fatherlands), which would cap the Common Market with a political organization where ultimate decision lay with heads of governments...
...Pet Phrases. But as the Jan. 5 expiration date of the holiday "protocol" drew closer, the farewells at the Wall grew tearful once again. Mayor Willy Brandt estimated that 1,300,000 of his West Berliners had passed through the Wall during the 18-day period, carrying with them $3,250,000 worth of food, clothing and Christmas presents. Nonetheless, even as Brandt's representatives worked cautiously with East German officials to renew the visiting agreement, many Westerners-both German and Allied-were having doubts. Brandt views the Wall arrangement as merely another item in the long list...
...resorts to farce; he gets a subscriber's cat up a corporate pole. To lend a note of modish company and public policy to this event, the cat's owner is a woman of color who alleges discrimination in the company's indifference to her poled pet. Before this cat is rescued, corporate structure has changed, old Edwards is as mad as Lear, two linesmen have been killed, a small boy damaged, but the company image is saved...