Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head of the U.S. negotiating team in Paris, Averell Harriman faces the most delicate and grueling test of his 34-year career in Government service. President Kennedy once remarked that the lean, lantern-jawed New York millionaire had held "as many important jobs as any man in our history," with the possible exception of John Quincy Adams.* At 76, Harriman is hard of hearing, but his vigor of mind and body remain unimpaired-and perhaps a touch of deafness might even help in talks that are likely to drone on for months, perhaps years...
...SELECTED WORKS OF CESARE PAVESE. It has been 18 years since Pavese's suicide, and U.S. publication of these four lean, antiromantic novellas at last gives U.S. readers a chance to see why his work is so highly regarded in his native Italy...
...high-pressure oxygen is producing impressive results for Dr. Richard Ashfield's coronary patients. To administer oxygen under pressure, Dr. Ashfield helped to design a device that looks like a minature submarine with a bubble top. Inside it, the patient lies on a foam-rubber bed or can lean half upright against a back rest. The lid is tightly shut by a series of strong sealing locks around...
...Matter of Keeping Lean. The better balance means that big agencies can operate more efficiently. They are generally opposed, for instance, to the flat 15% commission that had been an advertising tradition for over 40 years. More and more agencies are switching to an adjustable fee that reflects the work they have to do for clients. Schule and B.B.D. & O., using their computer, have gone one step beyond that. The agency now has an E.I.C. (for Efficiency Incentive Compensation) system, which ties charges directly to agency profits. If the profit is less than anticipated, the client pays. If the profit...
...goddam thing we can do about it. We don't have any inventory to sell, we don't have a product that we can mark down in price and move at the lower figure. So in this business, it's become a matter of keeping as lean...