Word: biting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe that Hanoi did not seek prior approval from Moscow before invading Cambodia in December 1978 to unseat the Pol Pot regime. They also think that if it came to a truly hard choice-accepting further Soviet aid at the cost of forsaking their own goals-the Vietnamese would bite the bullet, as it were, and go it alone...
...trade names of antiunion J.P. Stevens products) and how to spur recalls of cars. Explains Dowie: "We want to get readers angry and make them do something. We're pamphleteers." Staff members talk easily of "fascist oligarchies" and "revolutionary weapons," but their bark is more ideological than their bite. "I don't want to live in a society without good restaurants or a choice of health care," says Dowie...
...making his home in tax-free Monaco, Borg avoids the 85% bite he would feel in Sweden. A Swedish newspaper last year calculated his net worth at $7.25 million. That is surely low; Borg's investments, which IMG also manages, have appreciated at well beyond the inflation rate...
With taxes taking a bite out of even the biggest paychecks, more and more companies are offering plush perks to executives in lieu of hard cash. A new generation of status symbols is growing up to replace the old ones, which tended to be corner offices or "a Bigelow on the floor...
After playing a sweet young thing opposite Comedian John Ritter in this year's Hero at Large, sultry Anne Archer says she is sinking her teeth into a "character with bite." For Green Ice, a film about murder in the emerald trade that pits her and Ryan O'Neal against Villain Omar Sharif, Archer had to master a loaded gun. "I did well," she laughs. "I learned to hold my right wrist with my left hand, bring the pistol up and shoot right away. My teacher was surprised." And doubtless gave her a blank look...