Word: bites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McCurry is not only earning his pay this week, he might consider running for office when this is over. His daily jousts with the sound-bite-seeking White House press corps have become the most consistent pleasures of this scandal, and he's survived them, integrity intact, by keeping his believability and that of the President (and of his legal team) in separate rooms. McCurry is unafraid to plead ignorance, or to blame the lawyers when legalities nudge him out of the loop...
Electronic delivery is already a huge threat. Faxes and E-mail have taken a $6 billion bite out of postal revenues in recent years. The damage could spread as software makers perfect electronic signatures that senders can use to authenticate their E-mail messages, thereby reducing the need for hard copies of such documents as wills and contracts. The post office is fighting back with some wizardry of its own in the form of an "electronic postmark"--a digital time stamp that, for a fee, can be used to certify that E-mail has been transmitted...
...game in 1990 made this industry universally ugly, particularly for Amex. With free Visa and MasterCard bank cards bulging their wallets, consumers were increasingly leaving home without American Express plastic. Instead of paying membership fees for cards that many merchants refused to honor--since American Express took a heavy bite out of purchases--more than 2 million Amex holders cut up their cards in the early 1990s. "We were in fairly sharp decline," says Kenneth Chenault, American Express's president...
...Come see the former junior high school English teacher, wit, storyteller and singer to children transformed before your very eyes into a sphinx. Yet she is still a great beauty, ladies and gentlemen. The silver hair, the smooth pink skin. Go ahead and touch her. She won't bite. (Then again, she might...
...culture. Most of us threw in the towel long ago. But not Jerry Seinfeld. While the rest of America has been off getting college credit for studying Silver Spoons, the star, one of the executive producers of the situation comedy that bears his last name, is unafraid to bite the hand that feeds...