Word: bites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although private universities like Harvard would not feel the CLT petition's bite quite as overwhelmingly as state-funded institutions would, they would be hurt nonetheless, according to Shattuck and officials from other schools...
...Iraqi President's videotaped message to America last week was absurdly long -- 75 minutes of a staid Saddam at his desk, potted plant to his left -- and the rambling script brimmed with illogic, non sequiturs and esoteric references to history. In the land of the sound bite, where attention spans are conditioned by the quick democracy of the remote control, The Saddam Show was barely worthy of public-access cable, much less prime-time TV. It was no surprise that the major networks ran only brief excerpts, while CNN relegated its full airing of the tape to 1 a.m. Eastern...
Marketing, like nature, abhors a vacuum, so the real question is what took them so long. In November Life Savers will introduce packages of bite-size "holes" in an attempt to add to its domination among hard candies. Only a killjoy would point out that they're not really the holes...
...economic blockade against Iraq does not bite quickly enough, and Bush decides he would like to raise the ante without launching an attack, he has an intriguing option: cut off the water. Iraq's major rivers wash down from Turkey and Syria, two nations that are part of the alliance against Saddam Hussein. Turkey, which has already cut off key Iraqi oil pipelines, is in the better position to severely disrupt the flow. With some effort, the Ataturk dam on the Euphrates River could be used as a plug on the crucial water supply, and there are already enough antiaircraft...
Bush and Gorbachev meet to discuss the gulf crisis, underscoring the shifts in superpower -- and other -- relations. Back home, Bush is bedeviled by the U.S. budget and Gorbachev by the Soviet economy. Gauging the embargo's bite. Tragedy for the refugees...