Word: slice
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago the Senate challenged the so-called three-martini lunch by voting to slice in half the tax deduction for executive dining out. The National Restaurant Association predicted that the measure, which is part of the Senate's proposal to raise $98.4 billion in new revenues over the next three years, would lead to a $1.7 billion drop in restaurant sales annually and a loss of 63,000 jobs. Said Harry Freeman, senior vice president of American Express: "This is a threat to the entire travel and entertainment industry." In Philadelphia, the International Association of Convention and Visitors...
...technocrat. The warlord's fortress is an executive suite; the watchtowers are electronic eyes; hero and villain cross swords over a photocopier, wrestle on sleek chairs and desks, almost electrocute each other with a computer's exposed wires. The final blow, be warned, is a vertical slice through the bad guy's cranium. One wonders how many members of the audience will stay around to watch the end of this compact Armageddon-and how many of these will leave with a splitting headache...
...other than those their colons may mete out to them. While no suspicion of permanent damage has been raised, there is little likelihood of permanent weight loss either: eating habits are not changed and indeed may get worse for those who figure the starch blocker will handle that extra slice of pizza. Beila Simon Kunis, a dietitian in Chicago, opposes the pills, but concedes that occasionally, "I will say 'O.K., try it.' Some people are very sensitive to it, and some are not. We're all looking for the easy way out, but damn it, there...
...young woman in red cannot control her body. Her arms flail; her legs buckle; she smiles sweetly through her writhing mouth. An old woman sitting in bed confronts a round slice of bread, tearing it to small bits, which she tosses one by one on the floor; this is her project. In the bed opposite, a Bedouin wearing a white shawl and a deep purple blouse turns from side to side in fierce perplexity. On her forehead one tattoo, on her chin another. These are marks of beauty. "She did not understand what happened," says an orderly...
...National Federation of Farmers' Unions in France. Explains Economist Mancur Olson of the University of Maryland: "In stable, democratic societies, special-interest groups accumulate over time, and they push to raise prices, wages or government spending. They can only serve their member by trying to win a larger slice of the social pie." In aiming to shield themselves from inflation, such groups perpetuate...