Word: teething
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Though the University sets aggressive affirmative action goals, officials say the policy may not have teeth...
...minute of play. It won't be long before someone begins using video phones for the multimedia equivalent of "dial-a-porn" telephone-sex lines. All these services can be delivered easily and efficiently by the information highway, and they can be backed up by a threat with real teeth. As TCI chairman John Malone puts it, "If you don't pay your bill, we'll turn off your television...
...WOOLLY MAMmoths died out at the end of the Ice Age, about 10,000 years ago. Well, maybe not. A team of Russian scientists reported in Nature that the beasts may have survived until 2000 B.C. on an island off the coast of Siberia. The researchers uncovered 29 fossilized teeth that range from 4,000 to 7,000 years of age. In a survival technique that has since been copied by human institutional giants, the prehistoric pachyderms adapted to their confined island circumstances by downsizing their bulk. Extrapolating from the small tooth size, scientists calculate that the mini- mammoths stood...
WORRIED THAT GROWING OPPOSITION IN CONGRESS could imperil the North American Free Trade Agreement negotiated by President George Bush last year, the Clinton Administration has promised to put "real teeth" in side agreements to the treaty to protect the environment and workers' rights. Negotiations on those issues got under way in Washington with smiles on all sides. Yet the U.S., Mexico and Canada immediately staked out divergent positions that make a quick accord unlikely...
...Felonies worry you to death, misdemeanors work you to death," says Mel Tennenbaum, a division chief in the Los Angeles public defenders' office. "We're underappreciated and misunderstood." L.A. lawyer David Carleton had his teeth loosened by a client who didn't like his plea arrangement. Manhattan's Judith White needs all seven days of the week to handle her load of drug cases -- a task she continues to tackle even since a crack addict murdered her father four years ago. When Lynne Borsuk filed a motion with Georgia's Fulton County Superior Court seeking to reduce her load...