Word: bites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after 1964 that the pay-as-you-go system threatened to collapse when the boomers retired. In the first half of the next century there will be only two workers to pay benefits for every retired person. The solution: create a reserve by raising the payroll bite for Social Security from 5.4% in 1983 to 6.06% in 1988. Thus, for the first time, today's workers will pay part of their own retirement as well as that of their parents...
...different from that of other popular novelists who incorporate historical figures into their books. Like most, he succeeds best when his imagination runs freest. A case in point: a scene in which Stalin's dentist, a competent though nervous practitioner, finds himself in the unenviable position of handling the bite that feeds...
...visibly squeamish volunteers from the beauty pageant dressed in blood-spattered lab coats. Three-dollar bus tours for those who want to see the snakes in their natural habitat leave every hour. A cook shack is busy producing corn dogs ($1) and deep-fried rattlesnake meat ($1). Take a bite; it tastes like turtle...
...like mush." Davis jumps up and heads toward the conductor, score in hand. "We need to hear each one separately," he says. "Dig-a-da-dum!" he scats, his right hand punching the air in emphasis. All at once, something that had been mumbled turns articulate as the strings bite into their parts...
...dance decently barefoot, but why not display them in what they do best? There are some much noted omissions from the roster, including such innovators as Twyla Tharp and Mark Morris, who have put the vocabulary of classical dance to new uses, not always successfully but with purpose and bite. The festival also misses the participation of Martins' co-director Jerome Robbins, a master American choreographer. Robbins bowed out because he is hard at work on a major Broadway production -- a retrospective of highlights from his many musicals -- for next fall...