Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regarded superintendent a year after the cheating scandal that resulted in the expulsion of 152 cadets, was summoned to Washington last week for a grilling by Army brass about a second scandal. This one involved an incident in which a squeamish woman cadet was forced by male classmates to bite off the head of a live chicken as punishment for too conspicuously dating a male cadet, who in turn was subjected to verbal abuse by his fellow students. One of them remarked loudly: "If I had a woman leader in combat and she proved incompetent, I'd shoot...
...cadets in the same basic unit, the company, which numbers about 100. The cadets are taught that each company is supposed to function as a whole, just as it would under combat conditions. This was the rule that was violated by the female cadet who was forced to bite off a chicken's head. She and her boyfriend, the son and daughter of military officers, had dated as plebes, and when they wound up by chance in the same company at summer camp, they began going off alone as often as possible...
...have deregulation we would have been hurt worse. We have problems catching costs but we are now more flexible and can better respond to the market." The real test of that will come next year, when air travel is expected to drop as the recession begins to bite deeper. "The jury is still out," says Edwin Colodny, chairman of USAir (formerly Allegheny). "There will be no full answer on deregulation until the industry has gone through a full economic cycle, up and down...
...Loan Bank Board Chairman Jay Janis predicts that mortgage rates, which now average 11.5% nationwide, could reach 14% by January. Meanwhile, the ability of consumers to pay for costlier credit, oil and everything else is rapidly declining. Washington Economic Consultant Michael Evans calculates that inflation and the rising tax bite have reduced the spendable income of a family of four earning $20,000 annually by $1,000 so far this year. If consumers suddenly begin closing up their wallets and pocketbooks, as they are expected to, inventories of unsold goods will rise and business will fall off sharply. Even Treasury...
Largely because of an offense that crunched Columbia two weeks ago and stunned defending Ivy champion Dartmouth in the season opener, the Tigers (2-1 in the Ivy, and 2-3 overal) rate at least an even bet to bite the Crimson on its own turf...