Word: leaner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Between 1968 and 1971, Harvard sailing squads won more events than any other New England team, coach Mike Horn '63 said yesterday. Although Horn said things have been somewhat leaner for the men's varsity in the past two years, he is optimistic about his team's chances in this weekend's Ivy League Championships at Yale...
...determination to shake up his Administration was, among other things, a hopeful sign that he was not necessarily content with the status quo. He seemed determined to grapple with a basic realignment of Cabinet-level departments as he strives for what he described as a Government that would be "leaner but stronger." The move also stirred new speculation about how he would handle such diverse personalities as his former Treasury Secretary, John Connally, Foreign Policy Adviser Henry Kissinger and others on his own myriad White House staff...
...expensive. Reform, using money more effectively, will be the mark of this Administration." The President objected to the idea that the nation needs "some new massive government program...What we need now, rather than more government is better government. Many times the better is not the fatter, but the leaner. What I am standing for is government finding ways...to give people incentive to do more for themselves on their own without government assistance...
...domestic matters, Nixon's leadership has combined a shrewd understanding of what most of the country wanted-or feared-with constant reminders of the old verities and only occasional flashes of innovation-so far. Even in his reform proposals, Nixon sometimes comes across only as a leaner, meaner liberal. The shortcoming is not his alone. American conservatism has long been inconstant, uncertain and divided in its aims, trying to combine belief in authority with a belief in individualism and little government. A rich tradition of conservative thought on the European model has never taken root in America; perhaps Americans...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN has been subject to as much harassment as the Soviet government is likely to perpetrate upon such a prominent citizen. It has not been the sort of persecution that has sent outstanding scientists or leaner-known intellectuals to mental hospitals. Nor has he been punished with the severity of another order which put writers such as Sinyavsky and Daniel in prison. But the government has prohibited his being published within the Soviet Union and has subjected Solzhenitsyn to intense personal intimidation. In Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, David Burg and George Feifer concern themselves primarily with the difficulties between Solzhenitsyn...