Word: slicings
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...semantics: What is a "food," and what is a "snack"? The extra $200 million may help balance the books, but it has nearly unbalanced grocers as they try to price chocolate chips (a tax-exempt baking product) vs. chocolate kisses (candy, which is taxed), or a freshly bagged slice of pie (tax free) as opposed to a similarly sized prepackaged pie (taxable). While conservative talk-show hosts ridicule the new laws as regulation run amuck, liberal critics blister them as unfair: a worker's pretzel is subject to the tax, but a CEO's caviar...
When he was campaigning for President, Lech Walesa promised to give every citizen a slice of the country's wealth. Last week his government took a giant step toward fulfilling that pledge when Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki announced that Warsaw will effectively make every one of the country's 27 million adult citizens a shareholder in Poland...
John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood is another slice of fictionalized autobiography: a life story that could have been a death warrant. The boys in the neighborhood must wonder if they have any choice but dying poor from drugs or dying rich selling them. Lame as moviemaking craft, the picture is nonetheless a harrowing document true to the director's south-central Los Angeles milieu; he paints it black. Boyz N the Hood functions both as a condemnation of the world outside any big-city movie house and as an inspiration to those aspiring outsiders who would change history...
...else but Donald Trump could come up with a way to attract attention in Palm Beach, Fla., in the midst of the Kennedy rape scandal? The downsized duke of debt wants to subdivide Mar-a-Lago, the historic oceanside estate he bought in 1985. Trump plans to slice the property into nine parcels that could bring him a total of $30 million. But some locals oppose the plan, prompting the town's landmarks commission to postpone for a month its decision on Trump's application. He has warned that if the board turns him down, he will sell the mansion...
Becoming a chef involves more than just learning to slice and dice. During the 21-month program leading to an associate's degree in occupational studies, students take courses in nutrition and cost control and spend weeks serving and cooking in the Culinary's four on-site public restaurants. (The presentation is stylish, the flavors subtle but often underseasoned.) They must also put in 600 hours of apprenticeship off campus at a C.I.A.-approved restaurant...