Word: pie
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...persist, interest rates remain high, the dollar remains high and manufacturing investment low. Productivity gains will remain low, imports will remain high, growth will remain low, unemployment will range from to 10 percent, and unemployment will be a battleground where competing interests fight for a bigger share of a pie which grows very slowly, and in so doing they will prevent enactment of some of the policy changes needed to get the pie (GNP) growing again...
...They need him desperately, after all, and when they hear his plane they are out on their makeshift runways, pulling sleds, flashing blinding smiles. On this route the mailman is always invited inside. A couple who wish to be known only as Newt and Sharon baked him a cherry pie on this particular visit. Sharon makes her pastries with bear fat. They talked of the six otters they had seen outside in the Salmon River that morning. Newt tore through his mail, furiously writing checks as he went. "This is one of the few places where the bills are late...
...aborting the work of Soviet and American negotiators meeting in Geneva this week. But to many scientists who are responsible for the technology of the concept rather than its policy implications, Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly known as Star Wars, is still little more than, well, pie...
...millions of Americans the blue-eyed, sandy-haired Ueberroth is still a virtual unknown. Even his recent anointment to the apple-pie job of baseball commissioner left most of the country in the dark about him. How did he achieve such a spectacular success? What combination of strength and guile lay behind that almost inscrutable exterior? All his life Ueberroth has been in the thrall of challenges. The Olympics were clearly his greatest. He made speech after speech to his thousands of workers about how together they had to climb a majestic mountain. "I've always hunted for challenges," says...
...work at least temporarily), really care about the future well-being of business. Rather, they are primarily concerned with sex and race discrimination and believe that legislation requiring equal pay for comparable work will resolve that dilemma. But sex and race are only a small piece of the pie when it comes to determining wages; employers must also consider skill, performance, supply and demand. To ignore the market values on labor would be fallacious; it would compromise our entire economic-system. If the jobs which women predominantly assume are consistently lower paying, then either the job is of little value...