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When Ted Turner launched his Cable News Network last year, broadcasting insiders condescendingly predicted that the "Mouth of the South" had finally bitten off more than he could chew. They were convinced that American TV viewers, accustomed to half an hour of headline skimming on the networks each evening, would never tune in a 24-hour news channel in sufficient numbers to support Turner's expensive satellite system. Barely a year later, CNN has corralled a potential audience of 8 million, won applause for its live coverage of breaking news, and is on the verge of turning a profit...
...fingernail of the bejewelled person shown snorting cocaine was bitten to the quick. Do coke users become anxious, or do anxious people become coke users...
...spoke in the voice of the nostalgically hard-bitten. As Hammett wrote of corporate thugs in Red Harvest...
...help respecting a movie that hilariously links death and creativity, yet has enough childish lunacy to have one creep respond to another's admonitory finger wave by simply taking a bite out of the wagging digit. On a colossal scale, that is what Edwards has done in S.O.B. - bitten the hand that feeds him. And discovered that it is soul food...
...funding. The House Appropriations subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Sidney Yates (D-Mass), has recommended a budget of $157.5 million, while the House Committee on Education and Labor and the Senate Subcommittee on Education have recommended $126.9 million and $119.3 million, respectively. The $88 million figure seems to have bitten the dust, but the precise amount will not be determined until the Senate convenes at the end of July. The OMB still insists it wants deep slashes...