Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pays for a miscellaneous category that includes eyeglasses and other appliances, nursing-home care, and insurance premiums. Where do the rest of the pennies go? Almost entirely to the hospitals. Around 1950, hospitals were taking only 22? of the sick man's dollar. Now they take the biggest bite of all: more than...
...fact is that President Johnson has gone a long way toward taking the bite out of the spending issue. Two weeks ago, for example, he announced that spending in fiscal 1964 and 1965 would be $700 million under his January estimate, and that the overall deficits for the two years would be decreased by $300 million to a two-year total of $14.6 billion. And while such economizers as Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd, who wants to cut spending by $6.5 billion in fiscal 1965, are likely to have a lot more to say on the matter...
...high quality of the most popular stocks. Leading the upswing are such solid blue chips as General Motors, Jersey Standard, Singer, International Harvester, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Motorola-a sure sign that the buying is still dominated by the professional investors and the wealthy, who usually do not bite at untried glamour stocks or frighten easily at a slight downturn...
...department Monday. It ordered that the police chief and the city manager look into the feasibility of using dogs in police work. If these two report back favorably to the Council, then the nine man body will have to decide whether the cost of canines is worth the added bite to Cambridge's finest...
...then any book that is in part a parody of pornography would have to get a bit rough now and then. Pornography is only one of the authors' targets, however. Before the tale is told, psychology, academia, mysticism, television, Greenwich Village, and Ugly Americans all feel the hard bite of Candy's satire. Candy is only as dirty as the reader's mind...