Word: pies
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Faced with white opposition and their own misgivings about affirmative action, a growing number of blacks would prefer to moot the argument by expanding opportunities for all Americans, whatever their color. They believe that instead of fighting for a fair share of the crumbs from a shrinking economic pie, blacks should concentrate their energy on making the pie big enough to guarantee a slice for everyone. That would require improving schools so that every child could obtain the skills needed to be competitive in the labor market, a thriving economy that could provide a job for everyone who wants...
Duany and Plater-Zyberk are no pie-in-the-sky theorists, but deeply pragmatic crusaders who barnstorm the country, lecturing, evangelizing, designing, bit by bit repairing and redeeming the American landscape. So far the couple and their colleagues have proposed, at the behest of developers, more than 30 new towns ranging from Tannin, a 70-acre hamlet in Alabama, to Nance Canyon, a 3,050-acre, 5,250-unit New Age town near Chico, Calif. Half a dozen such towns are already under construction. Seaside, their widely publicized prototype town in northern Florida, is more than half built. At Kentlands...
...cafeterias served 400,000 customers a day at their peak in the early 1950s. Famous actresses, well-heeled businessmen and just plain folks plunked their coins into glass-and-chrome dispensers to feast on such fare as Boston baked beans, macaroni and cheese and coconut-custard pie...
...Silver's, a Kentucky-based chain of seafood shops, launched a pay-for- performance program last October at its 1,000 company-owned stores. The plan, which encouraged employees to increase store business by suggesting that customers order such items as a king-size drink or a slice of pie, worked so well that some employees boosted their wages more than 75 cents an hour during the first quarter, from about $4.25. Says Wendy Lane, 23, a restaurant worker in St. Clairsville, Ohio, who added $70 to her paycheck in March: "All I had to do was a little...
American history, as it was taught to us, began with Columbus' "discovery" of an apparently unnamed, unpeopled America, and moved on to the Pilgrims serving pumpkin pie to a handful of grateful red-skinned folks. College expanded our horizons with courses called Humanities or sometimes Civ, which introduced us to a line of thought that started with Homer, worked its way through Rabelais and reached a poignant climax in the pensees of Matthew Arnold. Graduate students wrote dissertations on what long-dead men had thought of Chaucer's verse or Shakespeare's dramas; foreign languages meant French or German...