Word: bitingly
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...didn't want my wisdom. He wanted a sound bite. Or, in the outmoded argot of print, a quote. Under the conventions of American journalism, his insight was worthless to him until he could get someone else to utter it, thus conferring on his nugget some spurious authority and relieving himself of any taint of opinion or bias. I could just as easily quote him to the same purpose. Someday I will...
...Bark, No Bite...
...running lure. That will produce anything from an overambitious triggerfish (beautiful colors but sluggish: let it go) to a large black snapper or a larger wahoo. Or, if you are unlucky, an enormous barracuda. The latter will either break your leader in the water or do its best to bite your foot off if you get it in the boat...
ASSUMING THAT the universities will have to give more financial aid, the money will have to come from some-where. Universities have fixed budgets like everyone else. The money won't bite into the endowment or current salary contracts. Universities will make up their deficits by cutting unnecessary (and perhaps necessary) programs, reducing staff, eliminating research grants, decreasing library development and hiking tuition. Students would suffer from these cuts. Of course, students on financial aid are already forced to work a certain number of hours a week. They are often unable to exercise the full range of academic and extracurricular...
...uprisings succeed, Iraq could find itself dismembered, with the Kurds running the north, the Shi'ites the south, and Saddam's Sunni faction relegated to the strip in between. That in turn might invite neighboring Turkey, Syria and Iran to take a bite out of the country. Thus the Lebanonization of Iraq would become part of the unhappy legacy of foreign involvement in the Middle East, a result the West is anxious to avoid...