Word: pied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...indeed a tribute, though to what is open to debate. The show, which debuted last month and garnered the network its highest ratings ever (3.6 Nielsen points, compared with its average of 2.4), revolves around young women who live, love, cheat and eat a lot of pecan pie in the fashionable Georgia city that gives the show its name. Spelling has made some missteps in the past few years (e.g., University Hospital); with Savannah he has created a series that can rival his own Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210 as state-of-the-art trash...
These visions of mine are, I know, anathema to the Bigger Pie wing of the Republican Party. The piemeisters, whether they talk about trickle down or supply side or a flat tax that doesn't apply to interest income or a repeal of the capital-gains tax, are believers in one simple proposition: the less rich people pay in taxes, the better off the rest...
According to the event program, a Memorial Hall dinner in the early 1900s included mock turtle soup, fried codfish and pork scraps, Welsh rarebit, stewed kidneys in wine sauce, canvas back ducks, lamb tongues and canned corn, with mince pie for dessert...
...flooding the airwaves. A new one will remind voters that Forbes' flat-tax plan would end their cherished property-tax deduction. Encouraged by Dole staffers, special-interest groups have pitched in with statements like the one from a realtors' group equating the flat tax to a "bad apple pie. It looks good until...
TIME: It seems to me that some level of the debate has been between people who believe that you have finite resources and how are we going to divide the pie, and people who believe that the way to ameliorate poverty is to create wealth and that you can create models for more dynamic growth. If that's correct, then would Patrick Buchanan fit in the opponents' camp, or would he fit in your camp...