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University officials made it very clear this week that their plans to deal with growing inflation will bite deep into student pocketbooks: For graduate students, it was the Faculty Council's approval Wednesday of an all-new, crack-down tuition policy for those who don't pay tuition, and for undergraduates it was Dean Rosovsky's startling prediction of a $600 hike next year in student fees...
...President Arnold Miller traveled home to the coal fields of West Virginia to drum up support for the agreement. He announced that he will seek no further basic concessions from the Bituminous Coal Operators Association -only revisions in language. Said Miller: "I'm not going back for another bite of the apple. All that's left is the core...
...Every Ford cliche is covered, parsed, dissected. We treat him with slightly amiable disdain." Centrist commentators like James Reston of the New York Times have on occasion criticized Ford unsparingly. After Ford's economic speech to Congress, Reston wrote: "The fear here is that he didn't bite the bullet but nibbled it." The judicious David S. Broder of the Washington Post, who had defended the Nixon pardon, summed up Ford in his first hundred days as "surely the simplest man to occupy the White House in modern times...
...transition from free speech to enforced silence is no doubt painful. What torment it is for a living society, used to thinking, to lose, as from some day determined by decree, the right to express itself in print and in public, year in and year out to bite back its words in friendly conversation and even under the family roof...
Dingo is a dirty word in the Australian vocabulary. As an adjective, it connotes extreme cowardice. As a noun, it refers to a species of wild dog, usually yellow and about the size of a German shepherd, whose bite is worse than its bark.* In the 19th century, before any organized attempts to eradicate the dingoes, they killed about 500,000 sheep a year, making them Australia's public enemy No. 1. As late as the 1920s, Anatomist Frederic Wood-Jones expressed the national attitude toward the killers. "To say anything in favor of the hated wild...