Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University administrators have no qualms about hitting up the "most generous benefactors" for a steeped-up donation." Besides lab and Quad renovation, the current priorities for fundraising, which are also the pet problems of Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, are graduate education, junior faculty development and international studies...
...Valley Girls. If Andy Hardy's life was small town, Molly and her generation's is mall town: cruising the stores and the guys for a little post-innocent fun. Today's purchase is a portable tape player, a present for Mom. We detour to glom some sweaters, to pet the hamsters in the pet shop, to try on some beige Shiseido lipstick. Molly resists (and transcends) the Valley Girl stereotype, though she lives and speaks a variation of it. During a photo session she'll say, "This pose is, like, totally uncomfortable...
Though their company is highly visible, the Saatchi brothers seldom speak to journalists and almost never pose for photographs. The reclusive Charles drives to his office each day accompanied only by his pet Schnauzer and often spends his lunch break playing chess. "Clients never meet him, and most employees wouldn't recognize him," says one former colleague. He and his wife Doris spend much of their spare time amassing a noted collection of modern...
...proposed zoning change would continue to bar fast food restaurants, discos, pet shops, massage parlors, and mortuaries from operating in the Square...
...Several players can thank David Letterman for adding to their fame in 1985 (though perhaps not their fortunes). Terry Forster, for example, became a national hero when the Late Night host referred to the ex-Braves hurler as a "fat tub of goo." Another of Letterman's pet projects last summer was Kansas City Royals shortstop Buddy Biancalana, who suffered through a horrendous. 188 regular season campaign. Ten points if you can remember when Biancalana's first seven consecutive starts of the season occured...