Word: pies
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...recent years, Japan's huge budget deficit has forced politicians to cut back on spending and crack down on bid rigging. "The construction industry is tight even for legitimate companies," says Takashi Kadokura, an independent researcher who specializes in the underground economy. "There's less money, and the pie is getting smaller-especially outside of major urban areas, where the yakuza still largely depend on traditional businesses...
...paid, just to go listen to a student-loan lender," says Dan Davenport, financial-aid director at the University of Idaho, which remains dedicated to direct lending. "There's such big money at stake that people are willing to do many different things to get that piece of the pie...
...performing with My Mother’s Flea Bag, Poehler managed to uphold the college’s fine Jesuit tradition: “I spent a lot of time off campus shuttling kegs to and fro, and that was another part of my college experience.”PIE IN THE SKYBesides making more movies, Poehler has many “bigger ultimate goals” for the future. “They involve world peace, stopping global warming, making sure that we all just start getting along, building a robot that can create food out of its stomach...
...year-old apply to be able to drink martinis or have sex or serve in the military. Perhaps a tiny number of children are mature enough for such adult pursuits, but why set up a system to find them? Epstein says the teen culture of MTV and American Pie is stultifying--but at least it's not life threatening...
...former actor, for taking it on himself to "blow up" the news. But at least he believed something few of them did: that the evening news could reverse its long decline, attracting brand-new viewers with all their original teeth, rather than just fighting over a shrinking pie...