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...It’s only been a couple of years that a family member didn’t either bake or make the crust or slice the apples of every single pie we sell––and we sell thousands each day,” her daughter-in-law says...
...Bush was visiting the Everglades to name a new National Park Service director, Fran Mainella, the longtime head of Florida?s parks, and to tout his commitment to protecting what he called "a slice of heaven." He spoke to about 100 park employees, giving details of his 2002 budget, which includes $219 million for Everglades restoration - $58 million more than this year, according to the White House...
...there's even one in Texas. Despite all of Bush and Cheney's much-criticized permissiveness when it comes to toxic power like coal and nukes, the long-term future they've laid out is cleaner than the one we've got: goosing, through reduced regulation, the natural-gas slice of the energy pie - it's now 15 percent - and letting the market for energy do the rest...
...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...
...streets and in the bars was a sort of greedy get-it-while-you-can consumerism. What she was still too new to sense was that this rapaciousness was born not of optimism but desperation. The economic pie was shrinking, so everyone was reaching for the biggest slice while there was still something left to grab...