Word: pie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goes to the White House in that form, the President can brand it partisan, irresponsible politics. Then he will veto it, and the Democrats will look very bad." Belatedly, many Democrats were beginning to realize their mistake. Conceded a Senate Democratic staffer: "We may have to eat some humble pie on this strategy...
...conceals much art. In "Nocturne," though most of the world is asleep, "someone in the small hours,/ for the money or love, is/ always awake and at work./ Here young radicals plotting/ to blow up a building, there/ a frowning poet rifling/ his memory's printer's-pie/ to form some placent sentence." Then...
...clever advertising. Frank Gibney, the author of a forthcoming book, Japan, The Fragile Superpower, wrote recently that "the Japanese continue to maintain that a good Japanese can outsell Americans, outplan Frenchmen and Germans, and even 'handle' the Chinese." But the time for a philosophy of Mom, apple pie, and the transistor radio next door is gone. Japan is suffering from foreign economic pressures and its future is bleak, even on the everconsuming American market...
...will not argue that the American pie has perhaps been expanding over the last century, but it is yet to be proven that this economic expansion is attributable to, or in spite of the grapplings of the new upwardly mobile business elite. Perhaps Thorstein Veblen had a better understanding of the workings of a capitalist-industrial economy when he detailed the anti-social nature of business. In Veblen's view, business is forced by its basic orientation of profit-seeking into a policy of "sabotage" of production. It must fight against the "inordinate productivity of the machine" by keeping prices...
...while maintaining relative inequalities. He categorically states: "The pressures for growth tend to come from the upwardly mobile...who hope to create a new parallel (business) elite. The upwardly mobile can do this if, and only if, they can find a way to increase the overall size of the pie...