Word: biting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coats. The tags, which can be conveniently removed only by a special tool, set off an alarm when they pass through a sensing device that is usually located at exits. Criminals frequently try to cover up the tags with aluminum foil to fool the detection machines, or even bite off the devices. Sensormatic of Boca Raton, Fla., has some 200 million tags in 40,000 detection systems in stores around the world. Shops originally hid the tags inside each piece of merchandise, but the devices were so successful that too many criminals were being caught. Retailers now generally pin them...
Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci has accepted membership in the Cabot House Senior Common Room, but he's not afraid to bite the hand that feeds him once a month...
...room despite his lack of a reservation. See him, a moment later, impersonate a delivery boy soft-shoeing his way past a wary receptionist. And watch closely, for in the wink of a camera's eye he is going to be a furious Customs inspector whose bite is worse than his bark. Or a homosexual lisping his way past a posh club's maître d' with a particularly mad invention. Murphy exudes the kind of cheeky, cocky charm that has been missing from the screen since Cagney was a pup, snarling...
Alas, Uncle Sam next year will be sticking to his habit of giving with one hand but taking with the other. Social Security contributions, as those taxes are euphemistically called, will go up in 1985 under separate legislation passed in 1983. The maximum Social Security bite from paychecks will be increased $259.20, to $2,791.80. For most Americans that will more than wipe out any gain from income tax indexing...
...sides affected a carefree attitude on the eve of the debate. Reagan shrugged that he was "as ready as I'll ever be," as he stepped off Air Force One into a steady rain in Louisville. Mondale chatted with reporters on his campaign plane, pretending to cringe and bite his knuckles when asked if he was nervous. Told that 120 million people around the world were expected to watch the debate, he cracked, "Gee, that's larger than my average crowd...