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...foot long-and their job is eating cockroaches. Convinced that poisons and fatally sticky boxes do not provide enough firepower in the roach war, many Floridians are giving store-bought geckos (price: $10 to $20 apiece) the run of their homes. Bill Huff, who owns House of Pets in Tallahassee, says he sold 36 geckos in one week. He ran an ad in the Florida State University newspaper: GOT ROACHES? GET GECKO. St. Petersburg's Fins and Friends pet store had 75 requests for the lizards in four days. Says Gecko Owner Sybil Jaggears of Tallahassee...
...just a series of projects of temporary significance. The Core Curriculum is still young; even when it matures, it almost certainly will not mark the revolution in education that some had expected. The improvements in teaching that Bok has repeatedly called for remain impossible to gauge. And Bok's pet project, the Kennedy School of Government, has yet to become more than a professional school for budding bureaucrats...
...even many Socialists concede that Mitterrand's primary motive is political. Wholesale nationalization is a pet project of both his own party's Marxist left wing and of the Communists, who hold four seats in the Cabinet. Mitterrand believes that co-opting their ideas is the best way of weakening these potentially troublesome allies...
...American cat of any age or gender enjoys semisacrosanct status approaching that of the holy cow in India. There are some 25 million pet felines in the U.S.; their care and feeding cost up to $1.8 billion a year, which is more than the defense budget of Brazil. Yet, deep in the American psyche, there is evidently a bristling resentment of Felis domestica. This has erupted in a litter of books that celebrate a new and fast-growing cult of ailurophobia (hatred or fear of cats...
...sudden, should sick cat jokes prove so appealing? For one thing, since the triumph of Poland's Solidarity union movement, Polish jokes are out. For another, many people are being made aware of long-hidden resentment of the pampered pets and their golden-eyed contempt toward the humans privileged to support them. Pop Psychologist Joyce Brothers regards ailurophobia, at least in its literary form, as a harmless put-on. "If you get upset at this," she says, "you have too much emotional involvement in your pet." Harvey Mindess, an authority on the psychology of humor, sniffs: "101 Uses proves...