Word: pooch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...food company was running a "Search for the Great American Dog," he figured that had to be Nemo, his 2½ year-old part German shepherd. The celebrated base hitter even submitted an essay of the required 50 words or less on why Nemo should be named Most Valuable Pooch. Wrote Stargell, obviously from the heart: "He's one in a million." The winner gets $25,000. Will it be Nemo, prompting all the noncelebrity contestants to cry foul? Finalists will be announced in October, and then the public gets to vote. Making the All-Star team could...
...Pickup Pooch...
...Says Litsios: "This has really expanded my field of vision. I saw more in the six weeks after I got TellStar than I had in the six years before that." The Bide-a-Wee animal shelter in New York City is using a program called Choose-a-Pooch, which helps match potential owners with homeless mongels. Devised by Randy Lockwood, 35, an assistant psychology professor at the Stony Brook campus of the State University of New York...
...Choose-a-Pooch catalogues the temperaments and needs of 120 breeds, to indicate how a particular dog would fit with a prospective owner. At the six restaurants and bars in Washington's Watergate Hotel, micro-CELLARMASTER monitors the supply of 80,000 bottles of wine, liquor and soft drinks. The result: more efficient inventory management...
...White House ceremony marking National Crime Prevention Week, "McGruff" the bloodhound dropped in on President Ronald Reagan, 73, to shake paws. The 6-ft. trench-coated pooch (played by Sgt. Winston Cavendish of the St. Tammany Parish, La., sheriffs department) was attending in his capacity as "spokesdog" for the National Exchange Club, a 1,300-member crime-prevention organization. Citing a 4.3% drop in the 1982 crime rate, Reagan said the statistics demonstrated "a reaffirmation of American values, a sense of community, fellowship, individual responsibility, caring for our family and friends and a respect for the law." After his speech...