Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only for examining Soviet repression and Afghanistan but also other East European limitations on strong Helsinki principles like the "freer movement of peoples." The U.S. proposed the airing of such topics for some six weeks. After that, the conference would take up new proposals on the Soviets' pet topic of disarmament. The Soviets' timetable would have limited discussion of human rights and issues like Afghanistan to a week...
Dior spends $380,000 a year policing its 313 trademarks and employs a staff of three to work solely on counterfeiting problems. Among other odd missions, they once had to stop a Brooklyn pet shop from marketing Christian Dior T shirts for with-it canines. The Rome-based Gucci chain, which has opened 17 specialty shops in eight countries, has offices in Italy, Britain and the U.S. that deal only with trademark protection. At present, the firm's biggest peeve is a string of five false stores in Argentina; they operate under names like Luigi Gucci and Guglielmo Gucci...
Like any good rock band, the Pythons (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin) stroked their audience with familiar stuff: the Argument Clinic, the Pet Shop (received with a roar of recognition and approval, their Greatest Hit, as it were), Nudge-Nudge, the Travel Agency, the Four Yorkshiremen, all of them done handily, wittily--and almost exactly like their records and TV shows. There were a few miscued lines, and Cleese and Palin broke up unexpectedly at the end of the Pet Shop routine, but most of the evening was predictable. Their new material...
Meanwhile another disease, canine parvovirus, an unusually contagious and sometimes fatal ailment affecting dogs, has become a major concern of veterinarians and pet owners. While no overall figures are available, more than 2,000 deaths have been tabulated in Britain; and in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area alone, an estimated 1,500 dogs have died from the disease in the past three months...
...Delmarva Peninsula, which ships birds overnight by truck to New York City and other Eastern markets. But poultrymen are not resting easy. Says Frank Perdue, chairman of Perdue Farms Inc.: "All you can do is what you can." One step: voluntary quarantines for farmers whose families have visited pet shops...