Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mandatory controls, but I do feel that wage-price guideposts are a necessary part of any well-balanced economic policy designed to deal with inflation." JOHN P. LEWIS, former member of the CEA (1963-64). "I would like to see a wage-price review board. It would have more bite than the wage-price guideposts. In addition, we should eliminate import quotas on such things as Japanese steel. This will force American producers to hold the line against wage and price hikes...
...carrying off the mountain bit by bit is done by huge 450-ton power shovels that chew off 25-ton chunks of ore in a single bite and dump them into 75-ton trucks. The ore is then crushed and transported by 150-car, mile-long freight trains to Port Hedland, where it is loaded aboard freighters at the rate of 10,000 tons an hour. The boom has turned Port Hedland into the world's fifth busiest port...
What is so special about the largemouth bass? I asked. "They'll battle you all the way into the boat and then bite your leg," said John. "They'll hit anything that moves," said Anglin' Sam. "They'll gulp down crawfish, rice birds, ducklings, water moccasins-anything," said John. "They're the smartest, most unpredictable and most sought-after fish in the world," said Anglin' Sam. "And they taste good," said John...
...structure of his film with an eye to resisting its being co-opted into the alienated conditions of the "entertainment" industry when distributed in capitalist countries. He intended the breaks in the film to provide the necessary opportunity for debate and analysis by the audience, not to create bite-sized chunks for exhibitors to exploit most effectively for high grosses. Unfortunately the Orson Welles-in collaboration with the distributor, Cinema of the Third World-has chosen to observe only an "intermission" between Parts II and III and to charge audiences twice for seeing the whole film. Splitting the experience over...
...Mougins, a hilltop town five miles and 50 years away from Cannes, Mayor Rene Pellegrin became the first official anywhere to win re-election on an anti-Rolling Stones ticket. The Stones, pained by the gigantic British tax bite, decided to settle down in France, and sent emissaries to shop around for suitable villas. What shocked staid Mougins (pop. 7,000) was the five-member rock group's request for Roman orgy-size baths that would accommodate six or eight at a time. The progressive, Rene Avelli met his Waterloo when he declared that Mick Jagger & Co. were welcome...