Word: bites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slowdown, or growth recession or whatever, will bite much harder into corporate profits. They are already dwindling, to the grief of investors who saw the Dow Jones industrial average plunge from a July 17 high of 9337 to an Aug. 31 low of 7539, at least partly because it became obvious that earlier expectations of a continued smart rise in profits were wrong. Wyss expects after-tax profits to drop about 2% this year and stay essentially flat in 1999, perhaps rising a nearly invisible...
...erudition and braininess can be handicaps. He is difficult to follow in dialogue, not just because of his high-speed, rumbling delivery but also because of the breadth of his conversational span. He bounces from one subject to another without pause. "You'll never get a superficial sound bite out of him," says an aide. "He immediately goes deep into substance." A longtime associate of Hassan's says he has not once managed to surprise the prince with a piece of news; Hassan has always learned it first, from an aide, the media or the Internet...
...arrived early, before the Lehigh team bus, even, to fire up a grill, break out the chips and toss a pigskin at a tailgate. A brat, two burgers and several dropped fly patterns later, I made my way into Harvard Stadium, just as the sun took the bite out of the brisk October...
...House Judiciary Committee hasn't even begun to get down to substance, but verdicts-by-sound-bite from its members are already rolling in. Republican Bill McCollum has declared himself "shocked and disgusted" by the apparent "lurid sexual behavior" detailed in the Starr report. Democrat Maxine Waters has blasted Ken Starr, whose report the committee will be weighing, as "the poster boy for unethical prosecutors." Republican bomb thrower Bob Barr has attacked Clinton's "systemic abuses" of the "political process" and demanded an inquiry into his impeachment--and that was last year, before the Monica Lewinsky scandal even broke...
After seven months of lies, deception, frivolous legal maneuvering and constant attacks on independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Bill Clinton thinks all he has to do is bite his lower lip, confess and tell Americans it's time to move on [SPECIAL REPORT, Aug. 31]. We simply cannot abide by a standard that says it is O.K. for a President to engage in an extramarital affair inside the White House with a 21-year-old intern, lie under oath and then engage in sidetracking the inquiry seeking to uncover his wrongdoing. We cannot, as a nation, afford to remain indifferent...