Word: pies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them." Mindful of the family crowd, police have cracked down on overt cocaine use. Another problem: more resorts fighting for a stable pool of skiers. Since 1975 the number of ski areas in Colorado alone has snowballed from 27 to 35, and Aspen's share of the state pie has slid from 29.5% in 1972-73 to 15.7% last season...
...think the stockholders might be happier if he was a hunchback with a bad mole, and put them in No. 1. But even if NBC gets there, it won't mean as much as it used to. Now it's just a bigger slice of a smaller pie...
...late '70s is also the hardy bestseller of the early '80s: 700,000 have been sold; 270,000 in 1982 alone. With so many cheaper and more sophisticated machines available, why does the Apple II still hold the biggest slice of the $1,000-to-$2,000 pie? Software. More programs are available for this six-year-old machine than for any other single computer, some 16,000 in all. Also more user groups, more space in the computer magazines, more plug-in expansion units, more peripheral devices. It used to be that when something was done...
...House members, their first substantial raise in five years, was in fact long overdue. The main problem was one of timing, taking a pay increase when 12 million people are out of work. Said Congressman Leon Panetta of California: "It's the cherry on top of the pie to end up with a continuing resolution that has no money for jobs but a pay increase for Congress." The Senators sanctimoniously eschewed a salary hike (and thus will earn less than House members), but they opened the way for a flood of "honorariums" from special-interest groups by forbidding...
Beissinger: Well, I think the major problem they are going to come up against is connected with the fact that the economic pie is growing at a slower rate, so they're going to have real problems with resource allocation. I think the next period is going to be one of increasing regional and ethnic conflict. It will be an issue that will overhang almost everything else. Generally, what seems to have been happening in the last 15 years, there has been a growing sense of nationalism among everyone, not just among the minorities, but among the Russians as well...