Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blacks would prefer to moot the argument by expanding opportunities for all Americans, whatever their color. They believe that instead of fighting for a fair share of the crumbs from a shrinking economic pie, blacks should concentrate their energy on making the pie big enough to guarantee a slice for everyone. That would require improving schools so that every child could obtain the skills needed to be competitive in the labor market, a thriving economy that could provide a job for everyone who wants to work, and more access to capital markets for minorities who want to < start their...
...enough legalisms to justify inaction. The converse, of course, is also true -- and the more so in this case. For without significantly torturing their plain meaning, the existing Security Council resolutions constraining Baghdad can easily be interpreted as sanctioning the U.N. relief of the allied forces now occupying a slice of northern Iraq three times the size of Rhode Island...
Hospital food is dreadful. Hospital bills are frightful. Yet they are nothing compared with the humiliation of the traditional hospital gown, an ill-fitting slice of flimsy fabric secured along the spine by shoelace-style ties that expose patients to drafts in the darnedest places. But the No Moon Co. of La Jolla, Calif., has built a better hospital gown: a soft, thick, robe-like garment with an overlapping flap in the rear held in place by strategically positioned Velcro tabs...
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...Long John Silver's, a Kentucky-based chain of seafood shops, launched a pay-for- performance program last October at its 1,000 company-owned stores. The plan, which encouraged employees to increase store business by suggesting that customers order such items as a king-size drink or a slice of pie, worked so well that some employees boosted their wages more than 75 cents an hour during the first quarter, from about $4.25. Says Wendy Lane, 23, a restaurant worker in St. Clairsville, Ohio, who added $70 to her paycheck in March...