Word: pies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heyday, Atlantic City was a teeming pot of summer life--a town woven with saltwater taffy, wide, white sand beaches, seaside pie-eating contests and lollipop-striped bathing suits...
...their corner of Cafe Paradisio, 12 neatlycovered bins of toppings line the counter top, andcandy-colored bottles of flavoring stand along thewindow-sill. Burnt-orange Egg Nog clashes slightlywith luminescent yellow Banana, translucent greenPistachio and red Apple Pie...
...developments, more than sanctions, have helped change white thinking. And if broad new sanctions were to cut deeply into the South African economy, the government's probable response would be to abandon reform, crack down on black protest and make certain that whites got their slice of the shrinking pie first...
Conservatives disapprove of state actions to ensure distributive equity because they believe in the universal truth of the "efficiency-equity tradeoff." In the words of Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61, any attempt to redistribute the pie results in a smaller pie. Welfare creates perverse incentives not to work and reduces the efficiency of business--the so-called "leaky bucket." Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes is fond of calling redistribution a "parasite" on the body of a healthy capitalist economy...
Beer and sport. Sport and beer. Apple pie and Chevrolet. Who could ask for anything more...