Word: pies
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...discourages social leadership. Professors seem to have no compunction being prescriptive about behavior when it comes to the tenets of rabid profit-seeking. Last term, one professor stated to the class that "Our jobs in life are to increase society's wealth--we have to work on enlarging the pie. Enlarging the pie is what makes charity possible. If we didn't do this, there would be no such thing as charity!" Frantically scribbling notes, several students took as gospel this Word of the Professor--not realizing that there is perhaps a valid and opposing view...
...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's 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 he was heading for Hawaii last week. 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...
...Bush's plan, of course, sets aside more than half of that $2.7 trillion pie for tax cuts, along with what he promises will be healthy dollops for debt reduction and new programs, but he doesn't have all the details yet either. He submits his budget plan to Congress on Feb. 28, after addressing a joint session with a state-of-the-surplus address the day before...
...Before Napster can charge for downloads, it has to cut licensing-fee deals with most of the record companies (not just sugar daddy Bertelsmann), many of which are still suing Napster for "pirating" their music. As long as the labels prefer punitive damages to a piece of the MP3 pie, the free-music party will rage...
...Israeli news show mocked Sharon's apple-pie image by juxtaposing his campaign slot with the remarkably similar structure and visuals of Madonna's American Pie video. But Barak's reaction was stronger. His campaign unleashed a series of spots that drilled home Sharon's role in Israel's 1982 Lebanon invasion. Barak's admen accused Sharon of digging Israeli soldiers into the mire of Lebanon, from which they didn't emerge until Barak pulled them out last summer after a costly occupation...