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Though most New Yorkers' initial reaction was that the law is probably unenforceable, retailers reported brisk sales of sanitary devices ranging from 15? disposable cardboard shovels to $11 long-handled pooper scoopers equipped with a flashlight for nocturnal emitters. One apartment complex unveiled a canine comfort station, whose white-tiled premises were dutifully christened by Toto (né Megs), Dorothy's dog in the Broadway musical The Wiz. On the first day of the law, only 22 litter tickets were issued; yet to close observers of sidewalks and parks, there was a marked diminution in dog litter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Keeping New York Tidy | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...about-face, he declared a three-month freeze. At present, Reuss is striving to relieve the 5.9% unemployment rate by plugging a "Jobs Now" program that would create some 500,000 public-service positions. Nixon's plan to open 130,000 such jobs, Reuss says, is "a pitiful pooper of a program." He is also determined to close remaining loopholes in federal income tax regulations that allow a few wealthy people to get away with paying little or no tax every year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Patient Patrician | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...scooter-pooper," a noisy lure for bass, built by Alex Woodle of Greenwood, S.C. Little propellers on the lure make a noise. Hollow resonant chambers make it louder. The bass, attracted, bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Path of Progress | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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