Word: scooper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chicago Pet Shop Owner Donna Dunlop adds: "It's not just children and the elderly who have cats, it's young professionals in their 30s who are getting them." The inconvenience of owning a dog in a city, where apartment sizes have shrunk and pooper-scooper laws make the litter pan look like a less burdensome alternative, may also explain the recent upsurge in catomania. Says New York's A.S.P.C.A. executive director, John Kullberg, about the guard dog-cat controversy: "If you buy a cat, you can always get an extra lock for the door...
...shops as hangouts for eleven-year-olds) has oases in Kuwait and Qatar. But Baskin-Robbins, now owned by a European-based conglomerate, started out in California in the 1940s as a two-man operation, with Brothers-in-Law Irv Robbins and Burt Baskin scooping furiously. Another pioneer scooper is Earl Swensen, 69, who still owns his original San Francisco ice-cream parlor. Ten years ago, he sold the chain it gave birth to, however, and Swensen's, which has a shop in the Singapore airport, among many other places, recently opened its 300th franchise...
...Ethel Is an Elephant. She is indeed, and she shares a loft with a young Manhattan photographer, who has to fight both the city and his landlord to keep her there. Once he-or the show's writer-finds out about New York's new antilitter pooper-scooper law, he may not fight so hard. But perhaps he is thinking of asking the garbagemen at ABC and NBC to come and help...