Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...completely misreading the situation," said Francisco Tatad, a former government minister who is now an opposition leader. "His comments have disappointed a lot of people here." At week's end Marcos declared that though grateful for U.S. support, "we certainly don't want to appear the pet dog of any Western ally...
...bought the movie rights for a pot of money. Surely, by the way, this explains the dual authorship. The story's weight and complexity are not such that it is necessary to have one author shoveling coal while the other steers. But the combined constituencies of King (Pet Sematary) and Straub (Ghost Story) are a big part of what Spielberg paid...
...investigators discovered a not-so-little black book with the names of more than 3,000 clients, a list so rich with executives, athletes, Arab sheiks, foreign officials, movie stars and prominent society figures that one awed officer called it a Who's Who. Each patron's pet vices were neatly inked next to his name. One notation cautioned that the customer often reeked of garlic. Another, more refined regular was so valued he was rewarded with champagne and a free one-hour session on Valentine's Day. Barrows' notation alongside his name: "This is good...
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Steven Ozment has taken on somewhat of an advisory role for the Forum. "I think it's something that both students and faculty can pet enthusiastic about," said Ozment. "How can you not be attracted to an idea that is so obviously an expression if what we're all here...
Shklar, recent recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, could well have spun dross from a theoretical tower or availed herself of that luxury--abstraction--which so often makes political theory no difficult. Instead, and without making it sound like a how to for political pet owners, the book is "for and about us." "I don't pretend," Shklar writes, "that I am writing a letter from some distant ethical galaxy or addressing strangers...