He has been known to function as a hands-on mogul in the state-run film industry, rewriting scripts and nurturing pet projects.
The site (www.neopets.com), which MTV bought a year ago for $160 million, lets users adopt, feed and nurture their pets and do battle with cartoonish creatures including the catlike Aisha and the dragonlike Scorchio.
Steve Grand, a talented computer programmer who is best known for creating a game called "Creatures", in which players nurture virtual pets on the screens of their computers, claims to be able to explain the mystery of life, and hence how to create it artificially.
The pie contained no animals, thus we were not required to watch the animals being born and then nurtured as pets by Simon's kids over several weeks and then herded up for the big pie-plate in the sky while Simon said: "Oh stop snivelling kiddies we'll eat Blossom nose to tail and be REALLY RESPECTFUL".
An older adult's basic human need for security, affection and sensory contact can be met by holding, stroking or nurturing a pet.
He nurtured the pet during the following school year, and Colby thrived in his office.
Examine the incoming pet for illnesses and/or disease and start the pet on a schedule of medications, nutrition and nurturing to prepare the pet for adoption.
Breaking from Brown's micro-management and obsession with detail, Cameron preferred to give his cabinet ministers their head, allowing them to nurture their own pet ideological projects.
As we speed toward the day when mutual funds will outnumber people, is it too much to ask for a fund or two that cares about my needs and nurtures my own pet peeves?
If I were the sort of amateur scholar who nurtured a crankish pet theory about Shakespeare and I'm not, I promise mine would have to do with hidden references in "Henry V" to the relationship between Catherine of Valois and Owen Tudor, whom she took up with after Henry's death.
