Word: slices
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...June 2000. The administration is responsible for the creation of 22.2 million new jobs since 1993, the most created under any single White House duo. In February 2000, the United States entered the 107th consecutive month of economic expansion, making it the longest expansion in history. A wide slice of America has benefited from the boom, especially those who invested in Wall Street...
...student notes that even those who are distracted by the initiations have far more to worry about. Each day, hawkers force pamphlets, brochures, buttons, advertisements and questionable foodstuffs into the hands of students just trying to grab a slice of pizza in the Greenhouse or wake up before an astrophysics lecture...
...holidays tend to highlight certain deficits in modern child rearing that aren't so obvious the rest of the year, when we're sharing pizza by the slice and eating burgers out of the bag. "What is this strange, many-pronged stabbing instrument?" our kids inquire at the holiday table, examining their forks. Finger bowls, napkin rings and the other trappings of formal dining are as mysterious to them as the relics of forgotten religions...
...chief emphasis of the exhibition is on California as a place of incessant stress and conflict between groups and interests, as new migrant societies necessarily are. Each of its five sections corresponds to a 20-year slice of history, and tries to set forth (or at least to indicate) the dominant history, the winners' and losers' versions, of the era. It spends at least as much time and space on ephemera, from tourist brochures to labor pamphlets, as on certifiable masterpieces of art--which California has never produced in abundance anyhow...
...NONRECALCITRANT TOASTER: Somebody soon is bound to smash the worldwide small-household-appliance cartel's plot to foist $50 toasters built with 10[cent] engineering on a groggy breakfast-time America. The prospect of a toaster that quickly pops up perfect golden-brown slices every time is to be dreaded. Will the toaster swallow the slice, then hold it in its stubborn grip until it's a hunk of smoking charcoal? How many times in a row will you have to insert a slice, only to see it instantly pop back up again? Set the dial to WELL DONE...