Word: slices
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...City Olympic Games. As expected, Romney transformed a $379 million deficit into a $56 million surplus. He also set an example. Foregoing a salary, Romney cut the fancy meals and expensive trips. He infamously served his executives pizza on paper plates—and charged them a dollar a slice. Pledging to strip government officials convicted of felonies of their pensions and to prohibit senior staff members’ relatives from lobbying the executive branch, a President Romney could polish the GOP’s tarnished ethics...
...back phones. That service was discontinued because of lack of interest from passengers unwilling to pay several dollars for one in-flight phone call. The ground-to-air spectrum used for those in-flight calls came up for bid in July 2006, and JetBlue's subsidiary, LiveTV, purchased a slice from the Federal Communications Commissions to use for its Wi-Fi service. LiveTV will also offer the new service on its spectrum to other U.S. carriers...
...LARGE SLICE OF SCIENCE
...actual war-fighting is generally not included as part of the standard military budget. Instead, it comes from Congress in the form of supplemental funding bills. This year, President Bush is seeking $196 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Congress wants to approve a $50 billion slice of that to fund the wars through the winter, but with conditions attached - most importantly, calling for an end to U.S. combat operations in Iraq by 2009. Senate Republicans blocked the bill with a filibuster on November 16. House Democrats argue that a phone call from Bush to Senate...
...slice it, those are big numbers," says Ed Lehrman of Vine Connections, an importer of Argentine wine and Japanese sake based in Sausalito, Calif. "Sake is becoming more of a requirement as part of a complete program for distributors and major importers." Lehrman began as a wine connoisseur and marketer, tasting about 3,000 wines a year, before starting Vine Connections with wine partner Nick Ramkowsky and importing what has become a 12-brand sake portfolio, which accounts for about 30% of the company's sales. Lehrman says that sake's lack of tannin structure and its low acidity compared...