Word: slicings
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...Neighbor Islands for a slice of the tourist trade does not seriously worry Waikiki. There seems to be an endless flood of eager U.S. tourists; each year for the last ten the influx has increased by an average 20%. Only four months ago, the Gallup poll asked a cross section of Americans for their choice of a "dream vacation spot," and Hawaii's name led all the rest by a wide margin...
...Dwight Eisenhower, the word "liberation" was often used to label policy (but liberation was never really put into practice). A single word will no longer suffice, even as a slogan. The cold war no longer pervades the entire range of foreign policy. The Common Market, for example, is a slice of reality that U.S. foreign policy would have to deal with even if there were no cold war. With the cold war's intermit tent crises no longer seeming so momentous, one eye of U.S. foreign policy has shifted to the long view...
...friend is a pimp, and so it goes. Unfortunately, the play does not go-either toward social comment or domestic disaster, or toward that uncommon probing of the commonplace, the drab and the degraded that unveils an expanse of spirit in a waste of shame. All that remains is slice-of-life realism, which an inept director and cast turn into a slice at life that misses by a Manchester mile...
...ranged from 15% to close to 50% of wages, but averaged 55? an hour on top of $3 in regular wages and benefits. The experiment's early success, following a similar showing by profit sharing at American Motors, is bound to stimulate other unions to strive for a slice of productivity or profit gains...
...Jadotville hospital, where doctors and nurses worked nonstop for more than 48 hours trying to patch up a steady stream of wounded and dying. Many victims were maimed beyond recognition. "A doctor lifted a bandage off one man's head," said a witness. "A large piece had been sliced out of his skull like a slice from an orange, and I could see his brain pulsating...