Word: biting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that was dying," says Kim Sung Soo, executive director of the Korean Produce Association. Since the first shops opened in the 1960s, some 1,000 Korean-run outlets have sprouted around the city. They account for 85% of the independent fruit-and-vegetable stores, and have taken a 20% bite out of supermarket business. "They've forced retailers like us to sell better-quality produce and display it more attractively," says Jules Rose, chairman of Sloan's, a citywide grocery chain...
Three months ago, De Benedetti, through a family holding company, became the principal owner of Industrie Buitoni Perugina, one of Italy's largest food producers. Last week he took another big bite by announcing that he would pay $250 million for 51% of SME, a food subsidiary of IRI, the Italian government's vast holding company. The acquisition package includes more than 14 companies, which have 20,000 employees, operate 300 restaurants and 80 supermarkets as well as plants turning out everything from ice cream to tomato paste. Buitoni and SME together will have annual revenues of $2 billion...
...little Eves. And you Adams, too. I'm Muscles the snake. Don't worry, I don't bite, except in the wallet. I'm one of "Michael's Pets." We're stuffed toys based on actual animals that live at Michael Jackson's house. For $22 you can buy me or half a dozen other furry knockoffs from the Jackson menagerie. Michael went along with this deal because one buck for every animal sold goes to a charity he picks. And six of you lucky buyers will get to visit the master and his real pets...
...anger, Freedom Rising is also infused with a deep love for the South African land and people, and ultimately with great hope. And the harsh bite of Swanson's all too evident distaste for apartheid is countered by a poignant vision of what could be. In one highly moving passage, Swanson recounts his visit with Nokukanya Luthuli, widow of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Chief Luthuli, who was banned for speaking out against apartheid. Luthuli, together with the other 25,000 Black residents of the region, had just staved off a government attempt to force them into a bantustan. Swanson found...
...matter how much people use their home computers for non-academic work, all agree that the computers are most valuable for taking the bite off schoolwork. Says one freshmen, "I can edit a paper that...