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Word: bitingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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This tranquil resignation is strongly contrasted with the harried, impatient, worrisome lives of their children and grand-children. One son's profession as neighborhood doctor forces him to neglect his family, the Tokyo daughter is so stingy that she begrudges her parents every bite they eat, while a total lack of traditional calm surfaces in the grandson who throws temper-tantrums whenever he is crossed...

Author: By Celia B. Betsky, | Title: The Coming of Age in Tokyo | 7/28/1972 | See Source »

...first $12,000, way up from the first $9,000 now. The tax rate will rise too, but only from 5.2% to 5.5%. Result: anyone earning $12,000 a year will pay $468 this year, $594 next year and $660 in 1974. But he will not really feel this bite until late 1973-almost a year after the elections. This year deductions from his paycheck stop at the end of September; next year they will continue through late November, and in 1974 they will go on all year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SECURITY: Up Every Year | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

...skyscrapers puncture a skyline once graced mainly by domes and spires; one cluster of tall buildings even crowds the Eiffel Tower. A superhighway cuts along the quai on the Right Bank of the Seine where Utrillo once painted his cityscapes while patient fishermen waited for the carp to bite. The Place Vendôme, Place de la Madeleine and the Avenue Foch have been gouged to accommodate layer on layer of cars in subterranean parking gai ages. It all adds up, reports TIME Bureau Chief Charles Eisendrath, to Paris' biggest urban renewal since the 1850s, when Baron Georges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Building a New Paris | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

...food price problem, the President took a couple of long overdue actions that were politically the least dangerous of several options open to him. Because he stopped short of putting controls on the prices that farmers charge, the chances are that his moves will not take much of a bite out of retail food costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: Nibbling at Food Prices | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

...himself and all others concerned with the merchandising of Ronald Haeberle's exclusive photographs of the My Lai massacre. * Eszterhas, backed by the American Newspaper Guild, protested the dismissal, and the case went to Arbitrator Calvin L. McCoy for judgment. In ruling against Eszterhas, McCoy asked: "Can you bite the hand that feeds you and insist on staying for future banquets?" Eszterhas, now writing for Rolling Stone, maintained that the Plain Dealer "hired me to do a job for 40 hours a week and I did that job. But outside that job I have rights as a human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Short Takes | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

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