Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while the candidates are plugging their pet formulas for neighborhood valhalla, from the construction of neighborhood shopping centers to selling parking garges, the mayor has stuck to his guns on the issue of downtown development...
...warm family support given to Barney Clark was considered by his doctors to have been crucial to his remarkable endurance after receiving the artificial heart. Lonely heart attack patients have been shown to live longer when given a pet. Herpes sufferers seem to be helped just by participating in a self-help group. Says U.C.S.F. Psychiatrist Horowitz: "These self-help groups, for everything from single parents to rape victims, are very useful. They replace the smalltown systems that we've lost...
...teach his son and three daughters the old-fashioned virtues: early to bed, early to rise; be true to yourself; work hard, be frugal. His father was convinced that the son paid no attention. "He never listened to me," says George Sr. "He was his mother's pet. If he wanted a camera, or this or that, he got it. He was hard to understand. He was always dreaming up things...
Like an author plugging his book, Giscard came alive when asked about his pet project and the subject of a soon-to-be published article: the plan to change the structure of the international monetary system from a free-floating to a fixed base...
Unlike the Pet Rock, which insulted the intelligence, and Rubik's Cube, which defied it, a big new hit on the toy scene tickles the imagination and captivates the eye. The Wacky WallWalker, as it is called, is a sticky, rubber, eight-legged object that exists to be thrown at a wall or window, on which it alights, shudders, flips, turns, wriggles and lurches downward, shimmying like a pixilated octopus...