Word: bites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outline, to slice the deficit $496 billion with a blend of spending cuts and tax hikes. But as the revolt on Capitol Hill gained momentum, several alternative plans were put forth, both formally and informally, that had at least three things in common: they sought to minimize the tax bite, maximize budget cuts and reflect the mood of the voters, of which Congress is the all-time champion bellwether. And in Congress the word is that the voters most of all want the deficit reduced and their health-care system reformed, and to those ends are even willing...
...close attention to congressional prerogatives and sensitivities. As Dole advises from his sunny balcony, "If you really want cooperation ((from Congress)), don't bypass us until you suddenly need us." In other words, Bill Clinton must learn to pet the lions if he doesn't want them to bite...
...Virginia Tidewater is usually a relaxed affair, with the attractions of golf, beer and barbecue. But for Bill Clinton it was a chance for another 12-hour day of nonstop talk about health care, Bosnia and the deficit. As his hosts tried to sneak in a drink or a bite of supper from the buffet, Clinton was all business and going strong, guzzling mineral water straight from the bottle and grilling individual Senators about how they would reform campaign finance or move the pesky crime bill...
...dinosaurs' reign, which lasted from 208 million to 144 million years ago. These largest of all dinosaurs include Brontosaurus (an out-of-favor name these days: call them Apatosaurus, or risk correction by a knowledgeable six-year-old). They evidently used their spoon-shaped and pencil-shaped teeth to bite off leaves and twigs, relying, like many modern birds, on gizzard stones to do the actual chewing. Horned dinosaurs like Triceratops, which lived toward the end of the dinosaur era, in the late Cretaceous, had very inefficient jaws. "Their teeth were arranged in a vertical plane, which is very unusual...
...breaking of the sixth seal produces an earthquake, and Koresh has predicted one soon in the Waco area. Behind the seventh seal are seven angels who blow successively on trumpets, signaling all manner of calamities: a rain of hail, fire and blood; locusts arising from a bottomless pit to bite men, who wish for death to end their torment. Koresh, in a letter dictated to DeGuerin last Wednesday, said his writing "will cause the winds of God's wrath to be held back a little longer...