Word: bites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keep the deficit from growing larger, Clinton will have to ask the public to make sacrifices to pay for his programs. But he remains reluctant to bite that bullet. For example, Clinton has never said where he expects to find the billions that it would take to provide government medical insurance for everyone not covered by company programs. Slapping a large payroll tax on employers would hurt small businesses and drive up unemployment. And a general tax increase would violate Clinton's pledge not to squeeze the middle class to finance his programs...
Young's new album, Harvest Moon, is a new exercise in this sort of self-consciousness. There is no sarcastic bite to the music here, but, implicitly, he underscores what his alternative to prostituting old material: allow it lie fallow...
Oberwetter didn't bite, and his anger over the scheme is igniting old questions about whether -- and how often -- the FBI conducts stings on citizens without probable cause. Congress has repeatedly declined to enact laws against entrapment by government officials, but that could soon change. "We've had a long history of stings but never one with such astonishing political implications," says Don Edwards, the tough chairman of the House Civil and Constitutional Rights Subcommittee, who plans to hold new hearings. The attention couldn't have come at a worse time for the FBI, whose director, William Sessions, is himself...
...think that's a good idea. It could bite. And it probably has fleas. Your robotoys are much nicer...
...innovative ways," designed to make the South "more internationally competitive," and an August 1989 newspaper article in which Campbell said Clinton's "not one of those liberals. He's not a radical." "We got our clocks cleaned on that one," says a Bush aide. "We expected a nice sound bite that evening. We got bitten instead...