Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is no guarantee that the veto would actually reduce spending. If a president wanted a program badly enough, he could blackmail congressional leaders into supporting him by threatening to veto their pet bills. The budget would then include the president's agenda as well as the Congress...
...Personalized soap boxes. The members could plead for a grant to their pet student group from atop their very own stands...
...would be like a pet, and to take your pet and have it killed is not a comfortable thing for me," --Hannah Gittleman '88 speaking about her unusual course assignment in VES 30, "Fundamentals of Sculpture." (11/16/87...
...include members of the U.S. political parties was coupled with an offer to ( permit the contras to continue receiving humanitarian aid from the U.S. and other foreign sources. By offering the U.S. a role as both guarantor and benefactor in postwar Nicaragua, Ortega seems to be playing to a pet theme of the President's that Reagan has applied to arms treaties with the Soviets: trust, but verify...
...magician, by myth, found himself, while performing one of his most famous escapes, trapped underwater in an icy river. He found air bubbles between the hard ice and the water's surface, and they were enough to sustain him until he broke through. The Pet Shop Boys are on to this trick. They know, like Houdini, that the cold helps set the legend...