Word: slice
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Palestine twitches on the small white mat, struggles to raise her head, and failing, falls back again; she cries, then stops. Some slice of light has caught her attention. The nurse in bright pink carries a bird cage to the mat, and for a moment Palestine is pleased by two jumpy canaries-one black, one yellow. Now she rolls back and forth. Her legs, still bowed, kick out spasmodically. You cannot tell if she hears the music in the nursery or the murmurs of the other babies, stacked up in their double-decker box cribs. She acknowledges...
...more cheese than they can sell commercially. But that would be a lot to ask of politicians. The new farm bill actually increases present price-support levels over four years. Meanwhile, the Government is left with a stockpile that is a mess ... oh, all right, no matter how you slice...
Washington-based Economic Consultant Michael Evans predicts that wages in 1982 will increase no faster than the inflation rate, probably by about 8%. At the same time, he estimates, givebacks on fringe benefits and time off, combined with productivity increases, will slice 3% from operating expenses. The result: a reduction of about 3% in real labor costs during 1982. After years of ever higher unit-labor costs, that could be a small but important step in the struggle against inflation. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by David Beckwith/Washington and Paul A. Witteman 'Detroit
...family as all-American as the Smiths in Meet Me in St. Louis. Father (James Olson) chats of his business successes; Mother (Mary Steenburgen) presides over the housework with quiet grace; Younger Brother (Brad Dourif) dreams of love with a showgirl. But there is something rancid about this slice of apple pie. The pauses at Sunday dinner are laced with anxiety; the ticking of the grandfather clock sounds like the prelude to an explosion of neurotic energy. The detonator...
That Yale had to share this one with Dartmouth, which whipped hapless Penn, 33-13, to earn a slice of the title, was no solace for Harvard, which lost to the 1981 co-champs by a combined score of 52-10. The gridders finish with a 5-4-1 mark wrapped around a 4-2-1 Ivy ledger, good enought for fourth place in the conference behind Princeton...