Word: teething
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Commies, then of blasphemers, elitists and sickos. The arts grant becomes today's version of the Welfare Queen's Cadillac. And if the NEA is trashed or even dismantled in the process, so much the better: it only shows that the post-Reagan right still has teeth...
...incredible that I could come back," says Garagiola, 64, who was dropped as NBC's weekend baseball commentator in 1988 and who seemed as astonished as everyone else that the network would now choose him to save Today. "It's quite flattering. I'm not a flat-belly, perfect-teeth kind of guy." In too will come Faith Daniels from CBS This Morning, who will become Today's news anchor...
...particularly no one at NBC, seems to know exactly how to turn Today around. But there is a fellow in Florida who saved the show from a ratings disaster once, in 1953, and he is willing to try again. Like Garagiola, he is not a flat-belly, perfect-teeth kind of guy; but, at 38, J. Fred Muggs, the world's most famous chimpanzee, remains a crowd pleaser. "People like him because he's unpredictable and natural," says his trainer, Bud Mennella. "That show needs a spark, and Muggs has it." One thing is for certain: he couldn't hurt...
Those employers who openly defy the INS often find that it has no teeth. Since 1986, the INS has fined roughly 5,000 employers, but a study by the Rand Corp. and the Urban Institute shows that the average penalty was a mere $850 in an alien-saturated city like San Antonio. No employers anywhere in the U.S. have gone to jail for breaking that law. Even the smugglers have little to fear: a six-month suspended sentence is typical for a first offense, while some violators get only probation. "U.S. attorneys along the border plea- bargain these cases away...
...boom in the '70s are hanging in garages," says Fred Zahradnik, technical editor of Bicycling magazine. But with new index shifting systems from companies like Shimano of Irvine, Calif., he explains, "you just push the button, hear it click, and you're in gear." Shimano's system uses special teeth and ramps to move the chain smoothly between gears...