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...What is a "food," and what is a "snack"? The extra $200 million may help balance the books, but it has nearly unbalanced grocers as they try to price chocolate chips (a tax-exempt baking product) vs. chocolate kisses (candy, which is taxed), or a freshly bagged slice of pie (tax free) as opposed to a similarly sized prepackaged pie (taxable). While conservative talk-show hosts ridicule the new laws as regulation run amuck, liberal critics blister them as unfair: a worker's pretzel is subject to the tax, but a CEO's caviar...
...Really good guys," Brisket told me in 1988. "That Jesse Jackson, he bought me pie a la mode. I respect that man." But now the Fool was saying that the Democrats knew they couldn't beat Bush in '92. "Whaddya mean?" Graftwell said, trying to sound encouraging. "The Prez could lose. Four days out of seven, he's an empty suit. Ay-yuh, if it wasn't for Noriega and Saddam Hussein and them two wars, nobody but William Safire would know which one's Bush and which one's Quayle...
...Smith's Natural Juice Apple Pie contains artificial preservatives. The word natural refers to the fruit juice used to make the pie...
...certainly never been a nuts- and-berries purist. "I was a fat kid," he says. In college, he was the only student in his dorm who brought an entire refrigerator from home. He kept it stocked with sodas, bagels, cream cheese and cold cuts. At Amherst, he organized a pie-throwing party after negotiating a deal for 200 strawberry- rhubarb pies. In law school he trained on pizza, Chinese food and ice cream. He still has a passion for take-out, and he starts each day with a diet cola. Back in December, at 205 lbs., Kessler was concerned that...
...warily assessing public reaction. Potential presidential candidates, such as Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, are already sniping at Tsongas. Instead of more tax breaks for greedy businessmen, they complain, why not more of them for the middle class? Tsongas labels such criticism myopic. Only business can bake a bigger pie...