Word: pied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...North House Committee held its first Quad-wide Olympics Sunday, featuring 11 unconventional events ranging from pie-throwing to balloon-shaving...
Yale was somewhat more reticent, as Director of Public Affairs Gary Fryer said the academic community takes the survey "with a grain of salt, and a rather large grain at that." Humble pie apparently must be seasoned to individual institutional tastes...
...sanctions are imposed, Japan will make it even harder for U.S. companies struggling to make inroads into the tough Japanese market. Meanwhile, in July the U.S. merchandise trade deficit surged to its second highest level in history: $11 billion. Yup, Japan accounted for the largest slice of that deficit pie...
...which raised state taxes a total of $500 million between 1988 and 1990, has reduced them again in each of the past three years; this year's reduction came to $100 million. New Jersey in just six months has reduced income taxes 15%, half of what once seemed a pie-in-the-sky promise by new Governor Christine Todd Whitman to enact a 30% slash over three years. The reductions have made Whitman not only highly popular locally but also a rising star in national Republican circles...
...tourist store, where three young Cubans are staring at a window display of souvenirs that would cost them the equivalent of several months' salary. At the corner, a young man whispers, "Pizza, pizza," hoping to attract customers to an illegal private restaurant. At 20 pesos, the price of a pie equals what Jorge earns in two days. Light spills out of a wood-paneled bar for tourists: Jorge cannot afford the drinks there either...