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“We’re entering a time when the pie is not going to enlarge as rapidly … a time when there is going to be heightened group conflict.”

They enter this curious and claustrophobic home only when Mr. Reed promises his wife is baking a pie in the other room, but he draws them into his labyrinth using false promises and rhetorical exercises.

“It’s not pie in the sky,” said Garry Mauro, who served as Texas land commissioner in the ‘80s and ‘90s, back when a Democrat could still win state office.

The lead story in the October 22nd New York Times was headlined: “Battle is Fierce for Sliver of Pie: Undecided Votes.”

The iconography of McDonald’s — namely the golden arches — has become so interwoven with both the cultural and literal landscape of the country that when people think of the United States as the land of apple pie and hamburgers, they could just as well be envisioning the McDonald’s fried variety and Big Macs.