Word: pies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economist admits that his plan would not succeed if only a few companies adopted it. These firms would hire large numbers of new workers, and because the revenue pie would be split into many more pieces, the average pay might be reduced to levels that employees would not accept. But Weitzman argues that if many corporations embraced the share system, the pool of qualified people looking for work would be depleted fairly quickly. Each company would then be able hire only a relatively few workers, but the overall impact would be a large boost in employment throughout the economy...
...threatened. Ironically, some of the retired officers, who discovered the city's quiet beauty while stationed there, can be found grumbling about air pollution and traffic congestion. Others have noted congressional hesitancy in funding the militarization of space and wonder whether CSOC and the U.S. Space Command are just pie in the sky. Notes Mayor Robert Isaac: "It's hard to see into a crystal ball more than a couple of years out. The farther you look, the fuzzier it gets." But for most of Colorado Springs, the future, fuzzy or otherwise...
Coke, like apple pie and mom, belongs...
Would we tolerate it if America's mothers gathered together and announced that because we had been eating a little too much pumpkin pie recently, they--as a group--were going to dump an extra half-cup of sugar into every one of their apple pies...
...rhetoric because the President wants it there, and he's the boss," says a Pentagon official who is an advocate of Star Wars but not a believer in the elimination of nuclear weapons. "We're worried not so much about how to get from here to that pie in the sky, but how to get from here to the 21st century in one piece...