tried and true

The tried-and-true way to close yawning gaps in income inequality, health care access, and worker satisfaction is with labor unions.

It's a pretty easy one, but it's a tried-and-true thing, and I think it works well.

In the world of personal finance, there are certain tried-and-true recommendations: Spend less than you earn.

The franchise has included iterations set in Los Angeles, New Orleans, Hawaii and Sydney, each applying local color and flavor to a tried-and-true formula; some have come and gone, some have not been around long enough to go, but none is likely to display the staying power or global penetration of the original, about to embark Monday on its 22nd season.

The tried-and-true non-pesticide method growers have been using since the moths’ unannounced arrival in the 1940s is to simply ensure all the almonds are either harvested or destroyed by the time winter arrives.