Word: slice
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kuwait has built an impressive investment portfolio, with some $7 billion in the securities of a rich slice of U.S. industry that includes everything from computer companies to energy firms to banks. The Kuwaiti U.S. portfolio is managed chiefly by New York's Citibank, though reportedly Kuwaiti officials have threatened to move some of it elsewhere because of dissatisfaction with the bank's management of their investments...
...taken verbatim from the pages of GQ. There are also a bunch of improbable photos: six fashion models in khaki landing a hot air balloon amidst a herd of giraffes; six fashion models waving from on top of a jeep. Breaking down into couples, the six alternately hug, slice meat, look tough, read maps through glasses of Chablis, practice foreplay, wade in rivers, listen to New Wave on a tape recorder, and become good friends with the Masai tribesmen, who obviously know a smart buy when they see one. As the caption reads: "The magnificent Masai Africa's warriors...
...such wavering of intent. "Why should the President compromise?" asked Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. "He is doing fine standing still." Vice President George Bush declared that Reagan's program must be passed "unsalamied"-meaning that it should not be subjected to the "salami tactic" of paring it down slice by slice. Bush also implied that Reagan would veto a bill cutting taxes for one year only. The President, in a statement issued on income tax day, April 15, asserted that Americans would go on paying "too much" in taxes unless his full plan was enacted...
MALLE MAKES SUCH SCENES seem plausible in his Atlantic City, and as a slice of fallen life this is a successful film. But as a presentation of a handful of characters and their lives Atlantic City fails. Malle seems to have trouble casting male Americans: Keith Carradine's deadwood performance in Pretty Baby nearly ruined that movie, and in Atlantic City Burt Lancaster acts with such leaden sluggishness you wonder if the projector is running at the right speed...
Although Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel were contemporaries, they never met. By the 1860s. Darwin had already published The Origin of Species, assuring himself a slice of eternity and a reputation as one of history's most influential scientific thinkers. But, Mendel remained an obscure Austrian cleric, an inconsequential geneticist whose genius was not recognized until 20 years after, his death. Darwin was certainly unfamiliar with the monk's work, and Mendel has left no word of what he thought of Darwin's evolutionary theory, a theory that tried to explain the diversity and similarities among organisms, both past...