Word: slices
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Senate floor debate over President Bush's budget kicked off Tuesday with the vice president's first tie-breaking vote, which determined the passage, 51-50, of an amendment - just trust us on this one - to cancel out another, Democratic amendment to slice off $158 billion of Bush's $1.6 trillion tax cut for a prescription-drug addition to Medicare. (The GOP amendment found the money elsewhere...
...After a 21-year relationship, Heinecke and Pizza Hut split in January in a dispute over franchising rights. But Heinecke would not give up any slice of the pizza pie without a fight. On March 17, after a $10 million, 45-day operation, he reopened and rebranded his 116 stores as the Pizza Company, the first Thai-based pizza chain. Tricon International, the multinational conglomerate that owns Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell, has deployed its heavy artillery to quash the rebellion, opening 68 brand-new Pizza Huts throughout Thailand. "It's a battle between market experience versus...
Throw the cold sandwich bar meats into the microwave with a slice of provolone, and you've got a turkey or tuna melt...
...buoy Gallagher with a bracing sense of connectedness. As a girl, she thought a portrait of Lenin hanging on the wall was a picture of her grandfather. Her summers at "worker's camp," where the oppressed were celebrated, provide wonderful memories, although political purity was strictly enforced: an extra slice of watermelon to a black kid could provoke a rebuke...
...control and led to the killing of 440,000 animals. Or that foot-and-mouth disease, unlike bse, poses no serious danger to humans and isn't fatal even to animals. Or that the epidemic's overall economic impact would likely remain limited: agriculture comprises such a small slice of modern economies that a month-long outbreak in the U.K. would slow this year's growth by just...