I've come to expect the occasional electrifying twinge, where part of my meniscus — perhaps a bit too much — was sliced away some years ago.
("Funny how people slept late on Sunday but frequently not on Saturday". "He hated cutting grass, having learned as a child that however much you sliced it down, the goddamned stuff just grew back in a few days to look scraggly again").
Here's corporate profits as a share of GDP: So corporations are taking a much bigger slice of total income — and are showing little inclination either to redistribute that slice back to investors or to invest it in new equipment, software, etc.. Instead, they're accumulating piles of cash.
To remove this bias, an investor could allocate a much larger slice of her portfolio to government bonds.
It said that "trusts are gearing themselves up for a much larger slice of the private patient market".
Unions got a lot more respect, and a much bigger slice of the public understand their value.
And there has been nearly as much snide slicing of rivals as there is bashing of Mr. Haider's politics.
Individual investors account for a much larger slice of trading in Nasdaq shares than they do in NYSE and Amex shares, where institutional investors matter more.
Wages still account for a much greater slice of income than profits, but labour's share has been in decline across the OECD since 1980.
The public sector accounts for a much bigger slice of GDP so a drop in private spending has proportionately less impact on the economy.
