Word: slice
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haven they spell presumptuous A-T-T-I-C-U-S, for the Atticus bookstore-cafe. A good place for highbrow wimps who are willing to pay $4 for a slice of dry cheesecake, just to be seen there. For anyone else, this place has "avoid" stamped all over it. We were told the Atticus was fashioned after a cafe on Newbury St. in our own Boston. We don't know, we've never been there...
...road is crooked, his purpose, straight. Behind him ride the troops, their motion no longer the fluid, individual beauty of the previous shot. The silence implied by the distance from the action immediately withdraws from personal involvement to a historical perspective, the entire scene displayed rather than a slice...
...next week's autonomy talks. Reagan may also finally get around to appointing a special U.S. envoy to the talks to ensure that the negotiations will have a better chance of succeeding by next April. That is when Israel is scheduled to return to Egypt the last slice of the Sinai, the legacy of a man whose violent removal from the Middle East may make future progress toward peace vastly more difficult...
...There's great concern that the President's mix won't work." Though the alternatives being offered by Hatfield and Domenici differ in specifics, both want to slice more out of the defense budget than the $2 billion requested by Reagan. Predicted Dole: "The Democrats are just going to sit back and see what we propose and then tell us how unfair...
...consumer watchdog that got much of its money from the first federal agency abolished by Reagan, the Community Services Administration. Workers at FRAC wasted no time preparing the first meal to the new specifications. The paltry elementary school menu: 1½ oz. of hamburger (instead of 2 oz.), one slice of white bread (rather than 1½), six French fries, nine grapes, and a 6-oz. (not 8-oz.) glass of milk. The story was picked up by TV news and papers across the country. The New York Times's front-page headline: U.S. ACTS TO SHRINK SCHOOL LUNCH...