Word: pies
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...expense of whites. Of course, since the Law School has only one Black man and one white woman among its 65 tenured professors, it is hard to argue that minorities have taken more than their share of positions. But there is clearly a widespread fear that in a fixed pie of 65 tenured positions, the minority slice gets larger only by making other slices smaller...
...dress down a darkened backstage staircase when she tumbled, breaking her foot and spraining her ankle. Baxter then made it through the second half of the play without a moment of hesitation. "When the curtain came down, my foot looked like it had been dipped in blueberry pie," says the actress, who has yet to miss a performance. "Now they call me Gertrude the Gimp...
...grinning diffidently, Beaver is a 20th century Tom Sawyer. Able to resist anything but temptation, he is a dimpled noble savage who regards parents as gentle adversaries to be outwitted for their own good. He is a cultural icon for the baby-boom generation, the symbol of the apple-pie joys and melted ice-cream sorrows of an idyllic suburban childhood that never really was. After a successful six-year run, Beaver went off network television in 1963, but it continued to flicker on the mental screens of a generation...
...Unions in France. Explains Economist Mancur Olson of the University of Maryland: "In stable, democratic societies, special-interest groups accumulate over time, and they push to raise prices, wages or government spending. They can only serve their member by trying to win a larger slice of the social pie." In aiming to shield themselves from inflation, such groups perpetuate...
...three p.r. firms' names on the letterhead." Greenfield sent a fiery memo to Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee. "We don't want any of that damned crowd around here," she wrote. "If people want to get to us ... it's as easy as pie, so long as they don't come in (or send their manuscripts in or make a request) via a flack firm. The reason for saying no to these wolves is plain and very strong ... Why should we be in their goddamn memo traffic as exploitable or exploited 'resources...