Word: bitten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those like Dick Gephardt and Chris Dodd who would deny Gore that chance, "how Al does this time will shape the race for next time--and the same is so with Jack for the other side." Why? "Money, mostly." For at least the next two years every person bitten by the presidential bug will be scrambling for political and financial support. By doing well this year, Kemp and Gore could make that numbing job even tougher for their rivals...
Lockheed won decisively because "they had bitten off more," as NASA's Gary Payton put it. All three contenders proposed a fully reusable vehicle (the current shuttle jettisons its expensive boosters and fuel tank). All three eliminated astronauts (although people, as pilots or passengers, could be added later). Lockheed, however, pushed the envelope the furthest. Much like the experimental aircraft of the 1970s, the entire surface of the stubby, wingless craft is used to create lift, saving fuel and permitting a slower, cooler descent. This in turn enables Lockheed to replace the present shuttle's pesky ceramic tiles with...
...convictions that Starr recently won of Jim and Susan McDougal, the Clintons' former Whitewater partners, had already raised the stakes for this trial. So did the fact that the charges involve Clinton campaign finances. Even so, the trial might not have provided much drama if Starr had not bitten hard into the White House by indicating that he will name the President's close friend and adviser Bruce Lindsey, who was treasurer of Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial campaign, as an unindicted co-conspirator, a term popularized during Watergate. With that, Starr attached two scandals by prosaic association. Like the little...
Last week the Postal Sevice and the Humane Society sponsored Dog-Bite Prevention Week and highlighted top danger zones for carriers. (Of the estimated 4.7 people bitten last year, children were usually the victims...
Letter carriers bitten in ficsal year...