Word: pies
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...idea of a magic bullet is now no longer a pie in the sky,” said Thompson, explaining that the dream of an infallible treatment for cancer is now a real possibility...
...strict metric schemes of the academics, Creeley captured emotions with a spare, conversational style that assumed an intimacy with readers. In A Wicker Basket, he wrote, "There are very huge stars, man, in the sky/ and from somewhere very far off someone hands me a slice of apple pie...
WILLIAM KRISTOL, neoconservative editor of the Weekly Standard, undaunted when a student splattered a pie in his face during a speech at Earlham College in Richmond...
...reform homeland security spending, Chertoff will have to take on powerful rural Senators who've grown accustomed to seemingly disproportionate slices of the pie. Today, 40% of the department's $40 billion budget is dispersed in equal share to the 50 states and the rest goes to states more or less on the basis of population. As a result, the federal government spends $28.22 annually on a resident of Wyoming and $15.72 on a citizen of New York. Instead, Chertoff wants to employ risk analysis-like the kind used in a DHS draft report inadvertantly placed on a Hawaii state...
...read the fine print: Germany created thousands of new jobs last year, too. According to the Federal Statistical Office, 261,000 jobs were created in the last quarter of 2004 alone. How can unemployment and employment go up at the same time? It's simple: the employment pie got larger, as did the unemployment slice. Many of the new jobs went to people not traditionally in the job-seeking pool. The trend was toward more part-time work and fewer permanent, full-time jobs, and most of the new jobs were in the service sector. Those service sector gains more...