Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Loker on Saturday or your professor walking his dog on Garden St. on Sunday. Time collapses into itself, and the days become not 24-hour blocks, but the amount of time between a class and a section, between one response paper and a term paper, between a late-night slice at Tommy's and an early morning burger at The Tasty...
...spend "too much" rather than too little. So what's left on the table accounts for only about 23% of the budget. Analysts at the nonpartisan Concord Coalition, co-founded by Dole adviser Warren Rudman, the former Senator from New Hampshire, predict that by the year 2002, this slice of the pie will have to be slashed more than 40% in order to meet Dole's objectives...
...lessen price pressure on the thousands of items, from pushpins to personal computers, on which the two often clashed. But analysts viewed the deal positively for exactly that reason. The combined companies would control about 10% of the $150 billion U.S. office-supply business, or about three times the slice held by No. 3 OfficeMax...
...decided, on my urging, that we would lead into the convention with a lot of bill signings and directives--health care, welfare, tobacco regulations. The Republicans made a serious blunder in timing by sending bills to the White House just after their convention, allowing us to use them to slice away at their momentum. Before the opening gavel fell, we had regained 6 of the points we had lost...
...National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, the scene appeared straight out of one of those old melodramas with vocal audience participation. The guest speaker, Vice President Al Gore, had only to mention the villains--Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich, "the Ginsu gang," who "tried to chop, slice and dice all those things that are important to us"--and hisses filled the air. The heroes, too, were just as easy to identify. "We love all our teachers," Gore told the pumped-up, cheering crowd. "We don't bash them...