Word: biting
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Inflation has taken such a big bite out of universities' budgets for improvement of laboratories and equipment in general that their facilities across the board are now considered twice as old as those owned by private corporations. Level funding will lead to continued deterioration of university research over the next ten years, "and that is unquestionably a bad situation," Coddington says. Harvard scientists had expected up to $2 million from a $75 million NSF fund set aside specifically for renovation and new instrumentation, but Reagan killed the authorization last spring. Congress has since allocated $16.5 million for improvements--a "promising...
...Falcon is snared mid-bite...
...spirit is inoffensively amiable, and Hamilton works agreeably to compensate for the fact that he was born too late to play straight a part that helped make Douglas Fairbanks and Tyrone Power great stars. But Zorro lacks the lunatic inventiveness of his previous spoof, Love at First Bite...
...leads some Europeans to question whether any defense is worthwhile, whether it wouldn't be better to settle for "Finlandization." If the Americans want to spend a lot of money to try to deal with the problem-let them. The Reagan defense spending programs will really begin to bite into domestic programs twelve to 18 months from now. Congressmen hearing neutralist noises from Europe could well revive something like the Mansfield Amendment, the Montana Senator's annual proposal, back in the 1960s, for reduction of U.S. forces in Europe...
Presidential Priorities Your article suggesting that President Reagan is incompetent in foreign policy matters [June 29] makes me want to bite nails. The fact that the President doesn't have pat answers to all foreign policy questions does not mean he is ignorant of the issues. Let the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State do their jobs, while the President concentrates on a much more pressing issue-the survival of our economic system...