Word: bites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Street meant to them, their jobs, their families and their security. Businessmen feared that queasy consumers might stop spending as freely as they have been in recent years. Workers feared that a market collapse could usher in a recession that would cost them jobs or bonuses or take a bite out of their profit sharing or pensions. Those nearing retirement were concerned about the effect on pension funds and on investments that they will soon have to rely on for income. "It scares me to death," admitted a Miami homemaker, "because the market regulates everything...
Once again, Yale's Lady Bulldog soccer team has demonstrated that it has more bark than bite...
While the whole team contributed to the victory, it was Burger who really took the bite out of the opposition...
...about 70% of victims, the first sign is a rash that often looks like a bull's-eye -- white in the center and red on the outside. It erupts up to a month after the tick bite, and is sometimes accompanied by fever, stiffness and extreme lethargy. At this stage, the infection is easily cured with common antibiotics, like tetracycline. Left untreated, however, more serious symptoms may develop as the spirochete makes its way into the brain (18% of cases), the joints (57%) or the heart (10%). Correctly diagnosed, even these complications can usually be reversed with large doses...
Most of these bite-size chunks of Cosbyana are little more than stand-up material set down on paper, without the flair that Cosby brings to them in live performance. (His unbilled collaborator on both books was Humor Writer Ralph Schoenstein.) But the quips are frequently funny, and pure Cosby. Noting that underwear keeps getting tighter as one grows older, he observes, "It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size Jockey shorts for his entire life...