Word: leaner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Public Garden is full of beautiful statues, including a classic George Washington on horseback pose near the Arlington Street end. The statuary pickings are leaner at the Common except for one Civil War scene directly across from the state House...
...they're making a helluva racket, but you don't know if they are fighting or making love." From the start of hostilities, however, it was all too obvious that the front-line units of China's huge, 3% million-man land army and those of Viet Nam's leaner but highly honed 615,000 troops were not embracing. At dawn on Saturday, Feb. 17, Chinese forces, massed more than 300,000 strong north of Viet Nam in Yunnan and Kwangsi provinces, loosed a massive artillery barrage on key border positions. Hardest hit were Vietnamese concentrations around the cities...
...through which some 80% of the committee's legislation flowed. He has combined two other subcommittees. The result is to give more power to the full committee and, he assumes, himself. Just as significantly, he has cut back the committee's unimpressive 72-member staff to a leaner but more professional...
There are those who see the private-college crunch as a blessing in disguise. Says the Rev. Paul Reinert, chancellor of St. Louis University: "Private education should grow a little leaner." Perhaps it should. But then too, the public system has overbuilt and overborrowed as well. If the private schools suffer most as the fiscal crisis deepens, that will be a consequence no one intended. The nation's large-and often excellent-public system was designed, after all, to supplement the private colleges, not to supplant them...
...Since rationality dictates that we conserve our scarce and natural resources, we must now fully utilize our human resources. We must run our economy on a leaner mixture of capital and a richer mixture of labor," Henderson added