Word: pies
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...have previously chosen the terror option to compete for power in legitimate institutions. Hezbollah is currently the single largest party in Lebanon's parliament, having parlayed the widespread legitimacy enjoyed by its military campaign against the Israeli occupation, which ended in 2000, into an important share of the political pie. Today, the Lebanese opposition is all too aware that Hezbollah is effectively the political representative of Lebanon's Shiites, possibly its largest single community today, and that any post-Syria political arrangement requires Hezbollah's consent and participation...
...employees owns a portion of TheFacebook, to be collected if the company ever sells or goes public. But while salaries of full-time employees are equal, ownership in the company is not. Exactly how that is divided is not something Zuckerberg will discuss. For one, he says, the pie keeps changing. The company was first divided between Zuckerberg and Saverin only. As TheFacebook added new people, Zuckerberg cut them in. The shares have also shifted to reflect increasing roles. For example, as Moskovitz took on more and more responsibilities, Zuckerberg decided to cut him a larger stake...
...liberal warrior’s battle is not only one of rhetoric and words, but one of attention-grabbing action, one of disturbance—one of pie fights. Pie Fight ’69, a film by Chris Bruno and Sam Green, documented the social disruption caused by a group of independent filmmakers at the “mainstream” San Francisco Film Festival’s opening night on October 23, 1969. A group called Grand Central Station arrived in a white van full of pies and hurled them at the star-studded crowd. Afterwards, a mime...
...couldn’t help but imagine her perched on a barstool, throwing back shots of whiskey and lamenting life’s betrayals. It’s sexy, in an intimidating way—perhaps the very feature that has attracted a worldwide fan base for the American Pie star. Some say her acting chops aren’t up to snuff, but critics can’t argue with a voice like that...
Though a mere fraction of the retail food pie's more than $500 billion-a-year total, natural foods' estimated $16 billion in annual sales is one of the few bright spots in a generally flat industry. Spurred by the soaring popularity of such natural retailers as Whole Foods and Wild Oats and expanded natural sections at the likes of Kroger and Safeway, as well as rising concerns about obesity, natural and organic foods are growing at 5% to 10% a year, and they could claim 10% of the entire food universe within a decade. "I don't think natural...