Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meantime, "The Jorie Hill Von Ohlen Liver Transplant Fund" at a Geneva, Ill, bank stands at $50,000. "The Brett Wethington Fund" has collected $40,000, from town rummage and bake sales, hair-cut-a-thons, pet shows, pancake breakfasts and anonymous donors. Fortunately, according to their mothers, Brett's disease has not yet progressed too far, and Jorie remains in stable condition. She is among the top five on a waiting list at the University of Pittsburgh. Unlike the Minnesota hospital, Pittsburgh's Health Center has told Hill that, when the time comes, only medical and not financial considerations...
Elsewhere, some frightened citizens are resorting to less elaborate precautions. In the Cleveland suburb of Garfield Heights, Nuns Mary Assumpta and Augustine Marie recently enrolled their Siberian husky Tanya in the nearby Inter national School for Dogs. For about $500 per pet, that academy teaches normally docile canines to bark, growl and bite. "We've had occasions when there have been people trying doors," says Sister Mary of her 32-bedroom convent. At the school, Head Trainer Howard Denton said business stayed strong even during the recession. "Any dog can do protection," he asserts. "I've trained poodles...
...second open letter Bok also included a defense of what he says in the University's sincere commitment to ending apartheid in South Africa. He pointed in particular to his own pet project: the funding of scholarships for South African Blacks to study in American colleges and universities. These scholarships are administered by two separate programs, which were begun in the late 1970s...
...struggling model in Paris, I experienced the futility of trying to apply New England rules of good behavior to the wrong environment. All of the by-then ingrained qualities which had made me a teacher's pet in prep school--discipline, organization, punctuality--were spurious currency in a community fueled by spontaneity, in which models wandered into shootings late and relied on after-hours socializing to advance professionally. Rejection as a model cut more deeply than rejection as a student because it was myself--my face, my figure, my smile--being rebuffed, sometimes tactfully, often abruptly, on a daily basis...
...viciousness. Richard Gelles, a sociologist at the University of Rhode Island, describes the grim ecology of a violent family: "The husband will beat the wife. The wife may then learn to beat the children. The bigger siblings learn it's O.K. to hit the little ones, and the family pet may be the ultimate recipient of violence...