Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Millions of Americans are in for a shock when they open their pay envelopes this month. Despite the well-publicized tax relief voted by Congress, take-home pay will be reduced in many instances. The total federal tax bite will indeed be less than last year, but the rates of tax withholding have been changed, with the result that people in the upper-middle and higher brackets will be hard-hit. For example, the amount withheld from the wages of a married worker with two children who earns $250 a week will remain virtually unchanged...
...state should pool their resources to maintain peace and discipline as a basis for economic rehabilitation and democratic growth, and not dissipate their energy in revenge. They should follow a path of "noble" revenge and prove themselves better than their persecutors. As a Bengali proverb says: "If the dog bites a man, the man does not bite...
...biggest tax burden. If we are going to have needed public programs, we're going to have to raise taxes on everybody above the poverty line." Laurence S. Ritter, a New York University finance professor, estimates that to underwrite the costs of improving U.S. society, the average tax bite would have to be increased $300 per family...
Virtually every night during New York City's nine-month music season, Winthrop Sargeant takes his aisle seat at the opera or a concert hall. On Saturday he writes the music column for The New Yorker-a column with considerable bite if he finds the performers indifferent, the conductor lackluster or the composers too avant-garde for his conservative taste...
...critics ever earned their bite as honestly as Sargeant. A child prodigy, he conducted a symphony orchestra at age ten, later spent six years as a violinist and horn player with several orchestras under a succession of conductors: Walter Damrosch, Willem Mengelberg, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Arturo Toscanini, Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter and Clemens Krauss. Sargeant also composed music for modern dance groups and orchestrated Broadway shows, turned to critical writing at the Brooklyn Eagle, TIME, LIFE, and, in 1949, The New Yorker. Last week, at 68, Sargeant announced that at this season's end he will give up his aisle...