Word: bites
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Patrolling the streets in a greasy blue windbreaker, Kreimer adopts the manner of a small-city mayor. His staccato pronouncements, delivered in a North Jersey accent, arrive in sound-bite size. "Homelessness," he barks, "isn't an epidemic -- it's a pandemic." As he holds court at a local coffee shop, relating the tale of how he won a two-year police-harassment case, he keeps an eye on the sports page as he speaks. "Hey, Georgia Tech beat Colorado State." Some of his resentful neighbors will tell you that Kreimer is a publicity-mad hustler...
...they could be changing the way things work in this country. Mayor David Dinkins was on his way to Thomas Jefferson to visit what it termed one of the most violent high schools in New York when the shooting took place. What should have been an easy media sound-bite ended up as Dinkins trying to comfort an auditorium of terrorized students...
...just want a quick bite, hit Huey's on Madison for a burger or get a brownie a la mode at the North...
...grow companies." Only later "will I turn my attention to things like tax cuts." Tsongas' neo- Republican view sees the cost of capital as the crucial force in economic growth. To lower these costs and thus induce investment, he would use the powers of government to cut the tax bite on venture capital. But this direction has been tried before with little success. From the mid-1970s until the 1986 tax-reform act took effect, the tax burden on capital was reduced, but the rate of growth of investment during those years was half of what...
...However, we note that those Bulldogs can get mighty feisty when cornered and we must beware of their ferocious bite--in a nutshell it's going to be a lovely match," he added...