Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More evidence for the prosecution came from Georgia Crime Lab Microanalyst Larry Peterson. A purple thread from Williams' bedspread, a green fiber from his bedroom rug and several hairs from his pet German shepherd, said Peterson, showed "no significant microscopic difference" from fibers found in Cater's hair. Police have long hinted at the importance of this "trace evidence," and last week said that their findings had been confirmed by forensic experts from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. None of this seemed to impress Defense Attorney Welcome. Said she to reporters...
Manufacturers put more faith in coupons and refunds than in TV commercials to move highly competitive staples like coffee, pet food, breakfast cereals, cigarettes, soft drinks and soaps. Consumers, eyeing the manufacturers' huge promotional budgets, sense that they are paying for the discounts and may as well take advantage of them. Says Kerry Smith, head of information services at Donnelley Marketing, a national mailer of grocery-store coupons: "Our estimate is that if one uses coupons consistently throughout the year, one can save anywhere from $300 to $500 on the grocery bill...
...Nixon Administration banned the use of poison on federal grazing lands because it kills more than just coyotes. The scattered chemicals-usually a nerve drug called Compound 1080-also felled birds, including endangered species like the bald eagle, not to mention foxes, badgers, opossums, raccoons and pet dogs...
...slush fund set up for him by California businessmen. Eisenhower thought seriously of throwing Nixon off the ticket. Nixon responded with the masterfully corny Checkers speech, in which he pharaonically denied wrongdoing and told the nation about his wife's "respectable Republican cloth coat" and his daughters' pet dog. It worked; the country loved it; Ike kept him. Years later, his painful writhings during Watergate were ultimately unavailing, but there was some echo of the Papyrus of Nu in Nixon's "I am not a crook...
...member of the Intelligenz, an American, a Jew and a capitalist, Agee battles for acceptance by his peers, but a restless private conscience pulls him elsewhere. In an eerie prefigurement of his own condition, Agee's pet magpie is one day besieged by hundreds of wild members of its species outside the window. After Agee puts his bird out to join them, it is pecked to death. But there are lyric moments in this boyhood as well: slingshot escapades, fishing trips, and cowboys-and-Indians in abandoned Nazi foxholes. But that world ends with puberty...