1.   Both grants represented pet projects of two council subcommittee members.

2.   Even as the trajectory of his thought kept rising in the early seventies, the clock was ticking on his pet project.

3.   His pet project is a biotechnology institute in which state funding will be matched by contributions from the Schering drug company.

4.   No organization likes being told that it has got to hold back its expansion or abandon some pet project.

5.   Stirling also had a pet project up his sleeve.

6.   He would not stand by and let his pet project be killed off.

7.   Spent my free time on my pet project.

8.   Along with state Sen. John Wettaw, R-Flagstaff, Groscost has been the legislative leader on electricity deregulation, making it a pet project.

9.   Americorps is a pet project of Jeffrey Swartz, president of Timberland Co., the biggest employer in Stratham, N.H.

10.   And filtering their suggestions through a strategist without pet projects or scientific fancies makes some sense.