Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Angry residents have been demanding tougher leash laws. Some people have taken to shooting any dog, even a neighbor's innocent pet, that wanders onto their property. Meanwhile, dog catchers have been working overtime to round up strays. In one county, 1,400 dogs were caught last year. But almost as quickly as a pack is broken up, another appears...
...playing Louis Pasteur with his potions and Petri dishes. But, for financial reasons, he never finished his doctorate and eventually became an insurance broker. On the evening of April 27, 1963, Bjorn-Larsen was in bed with an aching back when he began thinking about his wife's pet peeve: girdle garters that put holes in her stockings and made them run. Recalls Bjorn-Larsen: "I knew there had to be a better way to attach stockings than with those stupid garters...
Second, the Republicans seek to slash funding for policies that are investments in the future, while leaving intact their own pet porkbarrel programs. They seek to cut the budget for clean alternative energy sources by 75%, while giving the nuclear power program full funding. They cut deeply into support for education and scientific research, while barely touching such boondoggles as water projects and tobacco subsidies. These skewed priorities may serve the Republicans' special interests, but they will certainly harm America's longrun national interest...
...cost more than a million jobs. So the labor leaders are pushing a few alternatives to the Reagan spending cuts. They would prefer to lower federal budget deficits by reducing interest rates through selective credit controls and reduce unemployment through direct jobs programs. They are flatly opposed to such pet Republican proposals as a subminimum wage for teen-agers and the dismantling of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. In addition, the union believes that individual tax cuts should be focused on middle-and lower-income groups through a 20% reduction in Social Security taxes...
...keep track of the 4,500 guests and employees at the disaster scene. Nervous relatives and friends quickly overwhelmed the police department with calls seeking information about missing people. Executives of Commodore International Ltd., who were attending a convention in the city, moved seven of their small PET machines into disaster headquarters at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Commodore personnel programmed the computers to list names and rooms of the people staying at the hotel and drew up injury and death lists, helping police to end the confusion...