Word: biting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play's shift from slapstick None of the characters are developed enough to make their suffering believable and the play's broad beginning leaves the audience unprepared for any profound message hold coda might hold. Despite all the hoopla, Sister Mary's bark is a lot worse than her bite...
Mirroring the heated debate on terms and deficits in the presidential elections, exchanges between the two Republication candidates for the Massachusetts Senate sent have increasingly centered on whether the government should take a bigger bite out of your income...
...fact, acknowledged by Texas officials, that Hughes spent no more than 48 hours in the state after 1926. Disputing Texas' claim was California, where Hughes lived between 1925 and 1966, and where the inheritance-tax rate is 24% compared with Texas' 16%. California coveted a possible tax bite of $180 million...
...encore by the man who created Amdahl Corp., a successful maker of big mainframe computers. Amdahl audaciously planned to build a new supercomputer based on a revolutionary semiconductor chip that would be far faster than conventional ones. But, concedes Trilogy President Frederick White, "it was just too much to bite off." The company abandoned plans for both its superchip and its supercomputer earlier this year, and it lost $73.7 million in 1984's first half. Trilogy now contents itself with the production of conventional chips...
...issue for them. Among those who did comment was Dole, who was asked how Ferraro can be fairly asked to disclose information not required by law. "It's a tough assignment, but so is dealing with the Soviets," Dole shot back with relish. The crack lost much of its bite when Dole acknowledged that only his own tax return?not that of his wife?was made public when he ran for Vice President...