Word: bitingly
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...whole shape of the room looked like it had a bite taken out of it," says Knowles...
...whole shape of the room looked like it had a bite taken out of it," says Knowles...
Meanwhile, Harvard had avoided the tag of "scandal" in its dealings with the government, conducting an independent audit of Harvard Medical School billing practices and volunteering to repay the government for $500,000 in questionable expenditures. That cooperative move took some bite out of the U.S. General Accounting Office...
...that reported layoffs during the previous 12 months. In the latest survey, companies of this size laid off an average of 24 workers per firm. "Small companies are less likely to downsize than larger ones," says Eric Greenberg, an A.M.A. editor who compiled the report. "But when they do bite the bullet, they bite it hard...
...fabled careers. A gruff-talking, cigar-chomping bond trader, Gutfreund became chairman of Salomon in 1978. According to Liar's Poker, a 1989 best seller by Michael Lewis that described Salomon as a sort of financial Animal House, Gutfreund exhorted traders to come to work each morning "ready to bite the ass off a bear." When the traders were not executing centimillion-dollar deals, they delighted in such pranks as dumping garbage on one another's desks and replacing the contents of a male colleague's suitcase with lingerie...