Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After some intense lobbying, Carter's pet project passed over-whelmingly in the Senate and then squeaked thorugh the House by a slight margin...
Edward Kennedy on why he was tending a stranger's pet outside a primary polling place in Washington, D.C.: "I had to hold his dog to get his vote...
They read as follows: Cleveland Indians baseball, Ohio State football, the Cleveland Browns, Cavaliers, the old Crusaders and Barons, and so on until he reaches his pet hates, the University of Michigan football team and the New York Yankees...
...indebtedness at $4.30 an hour. "I felt good about working." Before a spinal injury incapacitated her, she was a nurse and a census enumerator. Afterward no one would hire her. "Lots of people who are capable of working don't get the opportunity," she says. Except for a pet rabbit named Kortina, she lives alone. The linoleum floors in her living room gleam. The white curtains above the radiator seem to have just come from the wash and the ironing board. "I'm going to do more work for the city," she says proudly. "I wish more people...
...worst offender is one of Bok's pet projects, the Kennedy School of Government, which draws more than one third of its teaching staff from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Kennedy School is just one example of Bok's continued encouragement of professional school growth and direction of Harvard's efforts far from the lipserved ideal of the liberal education...