Word: bites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...food for granted. So for peace of mind I would take a beautiful crunchy Granny Smith apple out to the bank of the Charles every day, sit down on a patch of grass, close my eyes, try to recreate my tabula rasa and slowly concentrate on each and every bite until even the core was gone. For the brief moments that the juice stored in the white center would be forced from the apple's pores and into my mouth, the outline of clarity was mine. Dissatisfied with only the shell of an answer, but convinced that wisdom was located...
...looking for illegal immigrants." In the piano ballad Leeds, Saliers sings of being drunk and depressed in a hotel room watching "16 black churches burning on the TV." The album is rarely preachy, and the sociological context--plus some canny rock-guitar riffs--give the Girls' music even more bite than it's used...
...estate tax. But, he says, "like most people, I didn't really focus on it. Then I sat down to do the math [on how much of his estate might go to the IRS rather than to his two sons] and said, 'Uh-oh, that's a big tax bite...
Netanyahu is a slashing, telegenic campaigner, and his opponents do not call him Mr. Sound Bite for nothing. Israel is also a country that believes in the rule of law. Of course, as the police admitted last week, it is hard to be absolute about what is political wheeling and dealing and what is breaking the law. But if enough Israelis conclude that the stench of scandal is too strong, they may be willing to help bring Netanyahu's bare-knuckle career...
...step forward last week when Microsoft agreed to shell out $425 million to buy WebTV, a struggling manufacturer of Net-surfing set-top boxes. Despite a glitzy $50 million holiday advertising campaign, WebTV sales were abysmal, reportedly just 50,000 units. So why did the colossus of Redmond, Washington, bite at such...