1.   Businesses are trying to make affirmative action work and to find a way to serve big pieces of the economic pie to black shareholders.

2.   But messing with market-determined prices, economists respond, distorts incentives to use resources efficiently, thereby reducing the total size of the economic pie.

3.   But the rising average shows that the economic pie for workers as a group is growing and that there are more good jobs to go around.

4.   Given that disparity, Roach says that at some point labor will intensify its demands for a bigger piece of the national economic pie.

5.   No one doubts there is plenty of fruit in the economic pie.

6.   Picture the government as one piece of the U.S. economic pie.

7.   So the poor not only have a small slice of a big economic pie, but the pie is bigger and their piece is even smaller.

8.   The size of the economic pie available to share with the elderly depends on how many workers there are and how much each one can produce.

9.   Central American leaders have long wanted a piece of the economic pie, and news of the talks has been largely welcomed there.

10.   Non-whites have gained a political voice since white rule ended, but their share of the economic pie remains thin.