Word: pied
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Just four months ago, Governor William Weld signed legislation designating Boston cream pie as the official dessert of Massachusetts. But the state sweet tooth is not yet sated. Any day now, lawmakers may push forward on Senate Bill No. 1716, An Act Designating the Chocolate Chip Cookie as the Official Cookie of the Commonwealth. Then Weld will face the crunch of whether to sign or veto. (He is already on record as supporting the venerable Fig Newton.) Also on the menu: whether to make broccoli the official state vegetable...
...necessary to destroy the IRS in order to save it? Not quite. Remember, the IRS already collects what it estimates is 86% of the tax pie; to get to 90% should not be impossible and would mean an extra $65 billion or so. Gross's game plan--making incremental reforms and remedying the stovepipe problem while improving customer service and electronic filing--is a sensible start. The IRS should also consider the following...
...chases replayed in slow motion. Yet I still got the feeling the ad-hoc directors and producers--many of whom are police officers themselves--want to make a statement with these shows. "America isn't safe anymore," they seem to say, "so lock your doors, throw another chicken pot pie in the microwave and tune into 'Cops' to hear about the real state of the union...
Before Game One, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley bet New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani a Chicago deep dish pizza pie against a New York subway token that the Bulls win in six or less. Rudy agreed, and even threw in a coupon for a Papaya King...
...left many of them far behind. Per capita income in the countryside is only $190 a year, about 40% of the urban average. Some 65 million struggle to survive on incomes below the official poverty line of $64 a year. The hinterland clamors for a bigger share of the pie, and historically, rural poverty has been the underlying cause of political unrest. The floating population of desperate job seekers pouring into China's cities has reached 100 million. While they provide the cities with cheap labor, they have stripped the countryside of its ablest workers and are blamed...