Word: slices
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...White House hopes the latest bad economic news--a surge in jobless claims and more indications of businesses cutting back--will give a boost to Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal, which the Senate voted to slice in half two weeks ago. Asked if the President still hoped to get his tax cut passed in full, a senior Administration official replied confidently, "Fifty miles to Baghdad." Translation: After the war, the chances could improve. In private, though, Administration officials say they will take the largest number they can get and declare victory. As a Bush aide points out with...
...Panama City Beach without me. I am not ashamed to admit that I was on the couch keeping an eye on the war. In the wee hours of the morning, when the networks stop bouncing from one correspondent to the next, the coverage nestles in with one little slice of the war—a single camera, even—and lets you watch a live stream, uncut and unproduced...
Lentz enjoys his slice of pizza and a chat on the rocks outside of the Science Center. It is 57 degrees out, teasingly warm for mid-March in Cambridge, and this will make for a better outdoor practice later on. Such days come along, at least at this time of year, seemingly whenever they feel like it. March is supposed to storm in like a lion and go out like a lamb, but the products of New England weather are necessarily unpredictable...
Lentz is holding court on the rocks in front of the Science Center almost serenely—cap backwards with a cursive “Crimson” on his forehead, slice of pizza in his hand. He has just emerged from a lecture about the escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam War. A few feet away, prison activists have constructed a hut intended to simulate solitary confinement cells in American prisons...
...swelled Harley's head. After watching a recent Sixers game from his second-row seat, Harley left the arena and pulled away in his company car, a $50,000 Cadillac Escalade. But he stopped when he recognized a policeman who once worked in West Philly. "Hey, you got a slice of cake for me?" the cop asked. "Just remember those old days." Harley laughed. How could he forget? These days the old days are his business...