Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally there was the Yale game. Remember, you were the best and the Bulldogs had no bite. But those Elis had us down, 2-0, with only three minutes...
...theater of the absurd, noting, "It beats lonesco completely." Still, he touched a raw nerve in the Danes' severely aching economy. Already hurting from 10% inflation, Danes are afflicted with one of the world's highest individual income tax rates. On a graduated scale the tax bite ranges from a minimum of 44% on incomes up to $11,600 to a maximum of 63% on earnings over $21,000. To make matters worse, the government imposed a $1 billion sales tax increase last fall to help balance a $2.6 billion trade deficit and meet the welfare costs...
When James Herriot writes about his animal farm, it doesn't have the Orwellian bite. Rather, in a series of bestsellers named after the lyrics of an Anglican hymn (All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Creatures Great and Small, AH Things Wise and Wonderful), the Scots-born veterinarian has painted a bucolic picture of his life ministering to four-legged friends in Yorkshire. Herriot, 61, who started writing at 50, now is consulting on scripts for the BBC, which has just begun to air a series based on his work. With it all, Herriot, a pseudonym for James Alfred...
...none of these flaws rob Coming Home of its considerable bite. Whenever the movie starts to lose its way, Ashby stages a powerful scene to bring the war back home. In one of them, Sally meets her husband in a sad Hong Kong hotel room while he is on leave from the front...
This approach to governing is always disappointing. America still has some very fundamental problems to deal with. It seems obvious that the U.S. will have to bite the energy bullet--yet neither extensive conservation plans nor the development of alternative energy sources was legislated. It seems obvious that our current taxation and welfare systems are an unfair and unholy mess. The social security system has been edging toward bankruptcy for years. The federal bureaucracy has grown so huge and decentralized that it acts as both a quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial fourth branch of the government, yet there has been...