Word: slices
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...business at local rental shops, which serve folks looking to replace a car in the shop or to rent wheels for business and leisure travel, is growing 5% to 10% a year. That's why airport heavyweight Hertz, a Ford subsidiary, is making an all-out assault on the slice of the business that Enterprise dominates with about 5,200 shops and two-thirds market share. Hertz, with about 1,300 nonairport locations, is expanding the number of its neighborhood locales about 25% a year and projects that by the end of next year, annual sales will hit $1 billion...
...labor movement has declined, the working poor have lost the organ that allowed them to express their voice. They have been unable to elect progressive politicians, and they have been unable to hold politicians accountable. While corporations hire more lobbyists to represent them, a smaller and smaller slice of working Americans have any organized body representing their interests...
...District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock tried to direct the attention of the jury to the “slice of the case” put before them—whether or not Shleifer was assigned to Russia...
...Slice of Heaven...
...building's residents, along with a bee, through schematically arranged, interconnecting panels. The book also features "Drill Core Sample," by Gary Panter, the cartoonist's cartoonist since the 1980s. Comprised of one page from a sketchbook done in each of the last 30 years, it offers a fascinating slice of his evolving interest in the constructs of "cartoons." Of the work by relative newcomers, "My Sexual History (Slightly Abridged Version)," by David Heatley (who also appears in "McSweeny's" #13), stands out as another in the brutal honesty school of autobio comix. Rendered as 672 tiny panels across fifteen pages...