Word: toothful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...away. Later, a journalist asked a sensitive question: If the old man hadn't been admitted, would it have been a form of rationing, er, "prioritizing"? This time the President answered, knowing the question was really about his own plan. "I'm not just trying to be the tooth fairy here," he said. "Every system has some rationing. The system we're in now severely rations care in all kinds of ways...
...Jane wiggled a loose tooth in her mouth. 'Picnic, S'ta Keatin...
...local ungulates. After that, supposedly, the only violence prehumans had to worry about was from other stick-wielding bipeds like themselves. Thus some punctured australopithecine skulls found in Africa were at first chalked up to "intentional armed assault" -- until someone pointed out that the punctures precisely fit the tooth gap of the leopard...
...racket is Big Boss Ma (not his real name), a Thai gangster of Chinese descent who funnels mainland Chinese through Bangkok. Seated in the lotus position on a teak sofa at home in Mae Sai, a northern Thai town, Big Boss exudes confidence and affluence. His gold front tooth glimmers as he speaks of his $20,000 prepaid package trips, which he claims have a success rate...
...warning signs are everywhere. Share prices in the relentlessly upbeat stock market now stand at sky-high levels by historical standards, and dividend yields have fallen to near record lows -- classic signals that the bull market that began 2 1/2 years ago has got dangerously long in the tooth. At the same time, companies continue to flood Wall Street with new issues to cash in on the bull's run before it can stumble -- another omen that the market may be overheated and headed for a fall. Even the current rush of little-guy buyers is usually a harbinger...