Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something like $130 million apiece, and two-Grease and Fever-not coincidentally star John Travolta, who this time last year was known only to TV viewers. The hungry white shark, or his bereaved mate, that gobbled up the dollars in the summer of 1975 swam back for another big bite in Jaws II, which grossed $98.6 million. Heaven Can Wait, Warren Beatty's good-humored remake of the 1941 fantasy Here Comes Mr. Jordan, grossed $72 million, and The Goodbye Girl, another film from late 1977, grossed $82 million. Though it opened only this month, Superman seems to have...
...that real G.N.P. growth next year may fall below his official target of 3%. The Administration script calls for a "soft landing"-two or three quarters in which output gains are small but nonetheless real. High interest rates, in the opinion of Carter's advisers, no longer bite down as hard on business activity as they once did, and so far there are no signs of the imbalances, like a pile-up of inventories, that usually precede a slump...
...Senator and his wife pass by the film location. He is hailed and invited to be interviewed by his friend from the plane, who plays a TV anchorwoman in the movie. Ending: Senator Charles Percy winds up getting a cameo in Airport 79 ("It's about time we bite the bullet," says he), and Actress Susan Blakely has a new associate in Washington...
Shelters enable people to generate paper losses to write off against their regular income, thus shielding their cash from the full bite of the IRS. Generally a group of investors forms a partnership, which enables members to claim personal deductions proportionate to the money they put into the group's investment. In a corporation, on the other hand, losses are charged against the company and provide no individual tax benefits...
...voyage in an umiak, an open skin-covered Eskimo craft, from Nome to a fragment of rock called King Island, is a masterpiece of terse narrative and clinical observation. Without wasting a diphthong, Roueche captures the look and feeling of the gray ice-choked sea, the pleasant bite of whisky and the new taste of muktuk, or whale fat: "The blubber looked like a block of cheese-pale pink cheese with a thick black rind. It was very tender and almost tasteless. The only flavor was a very faint sweetness...