Word: bites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apple of temptation came to Williamson County, Texas, last week, but the county commission didn't bite. Earlier this year Apple Computer, the California-based high-tech firm, proposed to build an $80 million office complex near the town of Round Rock. The five-member county commission was delighted. The project would bring as many as 1,450 new jobs, with a potential contribution to the local economy of $300 million by the year 2000. Then the commission learned that Apple extends health benefits to the live-in partners of unmarried employees, whether straight or gay. Jobs or no jobs...
...worried that interest rates have bottomed out and will rise again. In fact, some rates are already creeping up, though so far only to a bit above rock bottom. A much more widespread worry is that the tax increases included in Clinton's deficit-cutting program will take a bite out of the economy. Finally, worsening recessions in Western Europe and Japan could well short-circuit an increase in U.S. exports...
THERE IT WAS, A CHANCE ENcounter and perfect sound bite. Robert Tercek, then an MTV Asia promotions executive, was in Bombay taping a commercial when he felt a tug at his sleeve. Standing there was an Indian youth who insisted that he had to tell the world "what MTV has done for me." Cameras rolling, Tercek let Sanjay, 19, have his say. "Before MTV, I was like this," he began, his hands to his face like blinders. "Now it's like this," he said, stretching his arms...
...importance of the market as "a fundamental factor in the disposition of resources." And it went on to endorse speedy reforms in taxation, banking and investment to provide a more sophisticated financial system for the nurturing of sustained growth. But those reforms will take time to bite. In the short term, it was far from clear how Beijing could control a renewed torrid growth rate without setting off a new round of inflation and speculation...
...riff at her expense as she tries to sell them on a campaign ad by speakerphone from Washington. "Were you guys embarrassed for Mandy to see you acting that way?" Stephanopoulos spun that one: "Not at all. It was James who was the jerk." And Carville had his sound bite ready. "I'm glad I don't have to watch me everyday. I made my own self nervous...