Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ministry was under attack because of the increasing demand for imported dog food. Japanese dog food is more expensive, and is largely made of fish, thus likely to cause acute cases of canine halitosis. Over the past several years, pet owners have turned more and more to cheaper brands from abroad -and the demand has outgrown the government-regulated supply. If the ministry fails to respond, the dogs may well go to the country's leaders once again...
...Capitol Hill. Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, warned early in the campaign that he would oppose elimination of the surtax "unless additional, very stringent economies are placed in effect." Mills takes an even dimmer view of the President-elect's pet scheme to offer private enterprise tax incentives for tackling pollution control, ghetto job training and slum rebuilding. He argues that such tax breaks would result in "a very material reduction in federal revenue," and flatly predicts that the new Administration "won't get anywhere" in putting them before Congress...
...report catalogues startling individual abuses--veterinary treatment for a family pet paid for under Medicaid, a dentist collecting $164,000 in seven months from welfare patients, ten doctors averaging $100,000 each off welfare recipients...
Schrafft's, a 55-restaurant chain with outlets in eight Eastern states from Massachusetts to Florida, is operated by the Frank G. Shattuck Co., which merged with St. Louis-based Pet Inc. earlier this year. With Pet's backing, the chain's boss, Frank Shattuck II, has been trying to sell Schrafft's to a broader clientele. To that end, for example, some of the New York City outlets are currently being remodeled to make their liquor-dispensing bars just as conspicuous as the familiar soda fountains. Such changes are aimed mainly...
Kirkland dominated the action from the beginning. Their pet play was an end sweep, much like the standard single wing sweep, and they played excellent ball control football...