Word: pies
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...combined effects of inflation and the huge increase since 1988 in the number of campus student groups have eroded the value of the $20 fee. The new $15 increase will help to alleviate financial constraints on organizations that have had to survive on increasingly smaller pieces of the council pie over the past 13 years...
Before her role in "All My Children," Riegel played Sarah in American Pie, acted as Young Cosette on Broadway's Les Miserables, and played the voice of Young Miriam in Dreamworks' animated film Prince of Egypt...
...rich folk, who pay the most taxes, reap the most rewards. Families that earn more than $200,000 a year, who make up 2 percent of Americans, would save between 14 to 16 percent of their current tax bite. But their share of the national tax pie, currently at 27.4 percent, remains the same. (Bush's proposal to eliminate the estate tax is where they make most of their money. Which is why Republicans call it the "death tax" and explain it in philosophical terms...
...would like to see organ cloning become a reality." He was inspired to launch the business, he says, after a young cousin died of leukemia. "There are megadollars involved, and everyone is racing to be the first," he says. As for his own slice of the pie, Sloan says he just sold his firm to a French company, which he refuses to name, and that he is heading for Hawaii. The Southern Cross factory address turns out to be his mother's house, and his "office" phone is answered by a man claiming to be his brother David?although...
...proceeds go to the record label that produces the CD instead of to the artist. This system of compensation may have made sense when the only means of distributing music was through the sale of cassettes and CDs--the companies that made music portable deserved a slice of the pie. But as technology has progressed, the vested interest of the recording industry in maintaining the status quo threatens to undermine new and better ways of distributing music...