Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even the ranks of collegiate sports could not escape the nasty bite of controversy in the O.J. era. The travesty that is the NCAA football bowl game system slammed another nail into its own coffin by ending the season with two undefeated teams, Nebraska and Penn State. The Corn-huskers won both national polls to claim the national championship but Joe Paterno's boys were much worthier than runner...
...Chicago, have found that children from psychically damaged families frequently become hypervigilant, developing an intense attunement to their parents' moods. One child they studied, Nicholas, had a horrible habit of approaching other kids in his nursery-school class as if he were going to kiss them, then would bite them instead. The scientists went back to study videos of Nicholas at 20 months interacting with his psychotic mother and found that she had responded to his every expression of anger or independence with compulsive kisses. The researchers dubbed them "kisses of death," and their true significance was obvious to Nicholas...
...owner of Albo Pest Control in Houston. DeLay studied biology in college and went to work at a pesticide-formulation company in the early 1970s. There he learned that the EPA was banning Mirex, a pesticide that kills fire ants, aggressive interlopers from South America with a painful bite. DeLay, who believes Mirex is harmless, says this was his first exposure to the EPA's blundering ways. He claims that the delicensing of Mirex and another pesticide, chlordane, severely affected his extermination business, costing him more to do less...
Earlier in the summer the Western allies had warned unequivocally that a Serb attack like the one last Monday would provoke a massive response. But previous NATO bluster had led Serbs and Muslims alike to conclude that the alliance was all bark and no bite. Even after the shell had hit Sarajevo, vacillation appeared to be the likely outcome as the U.N. insisted on sifting the evidence to make sure the Bosnian Serbs were indeed the culprits. Then bad weather and a protective shift of British peacekeepers further delayed the nato attacks. As the hours ticked away, it seemed...
Fear not, G fans. reports of Godzilla's death [PEOPLE, July 31] are at least somewhat exaggerated. While it is true that after 22 starring roles the Big Guy may bite the dust in his latest flick, the word on Monster Island is that his lookalike offspring (introduced in 1993's Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla) is being groomed to resume the series in just a couple of years. Junior G. need only finish his growth spurt, 20 more meters and 20,000 tons, and he'll soon be following in his dad's crater-like footsteps. JOHN DANIEL LEES, Founder Godzilla...