Word: pies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this time next year, vast new video services will be available, at a price, to millions of Americans in all 50 states. Next spring Hughes Communications will introduce DirecTv, a satellite system that delivers 150 channels of television through a $700 rooftop dish the size of a large pizza pie. At about the same time, Tele- Communications, Inc. (TCI), the world's biggest cable-TV operator, will begin marketing a new cable decoder that can deliver as many as 540 channels; next week it will announce plans to provide this service to 100 cities within the first year. Time Warner...
Republicans must also take a different outlook on life. Media carping aside, the American culture rests on a positive, forward-looking value system. Optimism is as uniquely America as apple pie. We may grumble and ruminate about the way things are right now, and we may romanticize about days gone by, but we believe at our core that things well get better with time...
...gather "the kids," as Clinton refers to his thirtysomething gaggle of aides, and come up to the solarium for a party. By 11:30 p.m. Mrs. Clinton had said goodnight to Chelsea and joined the group. The carrot cake with cream-cheese frosting was all gone, and cherry pie had magically taken its place, like so much that happens in the White House. The President invited Begala to join him in the screening room for a movie, but in the interest of sleeping and getting packed for the road show that was to start in the morning, he declined...
...should learn English. Also, more than 65% feel that there are too many immigrants. Rodolfo O. de la Garza of the University of Texas at Austin, the survey's head researcher, says European immigrants developed the same anti-newcomer sentiment. Ironically, it's an attitude as American as apple pie...
...give equal shares of the divorce-settlement pie...