Word: bites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million budget deficit threatens to unbalance the state's account books, education officials and legislators say they fear that the Weld administration's cost-cutting measures could drastically bite into public scholarship funding for private universities such as Harvard...
...Does the world really need another lecherous British officer dithering, "I say, Lorna, I'm terribly keen on you"? At times, with their perfumed dissolutes and frustrated shrinks, the stories read like crude distillations of the Anglo-Indo-American vignettes of screenwriter-novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, or even like bite-size appetizers for the full-course feast of a Salman Rushdie novel...
...students--enjoying their vacation, no doubt--the capacity crowd was strangely silent, even with the Elis leading, 4-0. Yale still was able to cruise to its fourth staight home victory without the dangerous, rabid fans New Haven is famous for--maybe one of those partisan spectators will bite goaltender Ray Letourneau--who stymied the Crimson--if Harvard and yale meet again in the ECAC playoffs...
MORE specifically, he won't give economic sanctions a chance. According to the administration's own intelligence sources, the economic embargo is begining to bite. Although economic sanctions have been historically less successful than some imagine, the unprecedented, near-universal international support for the current embargo might help it succeed where others failed. Even if economic distress cannot unseat Saddam, it can hamper his ability to wage war. The sustenance of the Iraqi population and the readiness of its fighting forces decline with each day they go without supplies from abroad. Four out of the last five Secretaries of Defense...
...smirkily skewered on the small screen, as Father No Longer Knew Best. Dysfunctional families were the rule, and the home was no longer a haven in a heartless world. In a Thursday-night video showdown, it was irony (The Simpsons) vs. earnestness (The Cosby Show), and irony took a bite out of earnestness...