Word: teething
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter of seconds until the old man catches me staring and this sends him in my direction. "He had the vision," he announces by way of explanation, gesticulating toward the statue. Hoping to mollify him I agree, for the first time noticing that his mouth is desperately low on teeth. But it's too late, because he's already spotted my Cambridge University T-shirt, and this gives him the appropriate lead-in to a whole series of remarks: He tells me he's almost certain John Harvard was a Cambridge man, and then surprises me by navigating through...
ACCRA would also give the Department of Education (DOE) sharper teeth to clamp down on colleges and universities that do not meet these tougher new standards...
BLADE (Aug. 28). Wesley Snipes--buff body and best menacing display of teeth since the early Kirk Douglas--saves the world from some hyperactive vampires. Action in the gaudy John Woo mode; can it find viewers beyond teenage boys...
...User's Guide says that "restrictions(sometimes called "adding teeth" toprobation)...might forbid a student to participatein an extracurricular activity that was thecontext of the misconduct...
...industry denied liability for the almost 400,000 annual smoking-related deaths because everyone knew smoking could kill you--everyone, that is, but tobacco executives themselves! In 1996 they raised their nicotine-stained right hands before Congress and pleaded ignorance, a perjury charge Ken Starr could get his teeth into, if only he were not already representing these guys. When subpoenaed documents revealed an industry hell-bent on hooking kids, even tobacco's core congressional defenders blanched. Gingrich vowed he would be tougher than the President. The McCain bill, which raises the price of cigarettes to reduce teen smoking, sailed...