Word: slices
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Split down the middle, the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee decided to postpone its vote until after the congressional Easter recess. Despite intensive lobbying by Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz, the Republican-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week voted to slice in half the $60 million package. And though approving the full amount, the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, like the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tied strings to the money: to get it, the Administration must promise to promote talks between the warring sides in El Salvador...
...imperialism, fascism, racism, even male chauvinism or the belabored-to-death class system, but an enemy there must be. Americans often make a hash of British plays, mangling not just the accents but the invective. Sometimes, though, an American director's instinctively naturalistic approach, evoking a slice of life, can soften a didactic play and give it newfound emotional depth...
Johnson's victory is one of the latest and largest in an accelerating movement by angry victims and their relatives who want a larger slice of justice. Lawmakers are backing them up. Thirty-six states have created victims' compensation programs to repay some of the medical costs and lost income. Last week the nine-member President's Task Force on Victims of Crime urged all states to undertake such programs. "We've got to raise the status of the victim," said Lois Haight Herrington, who headed the task force. The report pointed out that the prey...
...bearing.' I think the stockholders might be happier if he was a hunchback with a bad mole, and put them in No. 1. But even if NBC gets there, it won't mean as much as it used to. Now it's just a bigger slice of a smaller...
...Plus ($1,330). The hardy bestseller of the late '70s is also the hardy bestseller of the early '80s: 700,000 have been sold; 270,000 in 1982 alone. With so many cheaper and more sophisticated machines available, why does the Apple II still hold the biggest slice of the $1,000-to-$2,000 pie? Software. More programs are available for this six-year-old machine than for any other single computer, some 16,000 in all. Also more user groups, more space in the computer magazines, more plug-in expansion units, more peripheral devices. It used...