Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...side of the spectrum, that period was when the NRA nutballs and prayer-in-school peons started gathering steam. On the other side of the political fence, you recall the rebirth of radical feminism, culminating in the so-called "Year of the Woman" in Washington. Any way you slice it, the early 1990s were years of activism on steroids, when everyone and anyone with a cause felt justified in taking any actions whatsoever to propel their narrow agenda forward with the rest of their zealous cohorts...
...Price of a Slice...
...want to allocate a bit more to your late-night snack budget this fall. Tommy's Pizza, famous for staying open until 3 a.m., and for its not-quite-so-savory sesame-seed crust, has raised the price of a cheese slice to $1.50, 15 cents up from last year...
...inflation rate. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the actual compounded CPI increase for food and beverages increased just half a percent over the last three months-- far less than the 11 percent increase at Tommy's. And wasn't it just last year that the pizzeria raised slice prices a dime...
...with him. I could only imagine how difficult it was for him. Lord knows, it was painful just to watch. I was almost willing to swallow his claim that his answers in the Jones deposition were "legally accurate." I had hoped he wouldn't try to slice his own words into a meaningless pile of razor-thin legalisms, but I told myself his lawyers had probably demanded it. So I set it aside...