So it really was true: pies grew on trees, here in the magic land of Xanth.
And the pie is growing 30 to 40 percent a year.
Now, there is a sense that the pie is not growing.
Where I live, pies don't grow on trees, and milk doesn't come in pods.
Actually, it would be sort of nice to be in a land like that, where pies grow on trees and magic works.
It is certain that the Mexican economic pie grew in size, but the poor received increasingly less of it.
Grey rubbed his eyes; he could have sworn the pies were growing, becoming larger and better defined in seconds.
The economic pie has been growing at 1 percent a year for 25 years," he said, "which means that there is more compensation to go around.
It appears the pie is growing rapidly, and the share that workers get is rising also.
That pie grew very slowly in 1990 and is going to shrink in 1991.