Word: leaner
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...This weather is letting us wear what we want and look nice.” This year, many girls have been steering away from excessively bulky items. Without the need for extra layers, students are leaving their long johns and down jackets behind, opting for a leaner, more compact look. “There is more of a streamlined, tapered look,” O’Neill said. “I think it’s a more sophisticated and classic style.” To capture this look, girls often tuck their pants into thin riding boots...
...lack of judicial experience. If Miers had previously served in a lower court, then she would have, no doubt, written up opinions outlining her beliefs on a number of constitutional issues. In killing her nomination, conservative Republicans effectively missed the point. They were clearly looking for a predictable right-leaner, not necessarily a talented scholar of constitutional law. Bush’s mistake was in failing to choose someone who fulfilled the first attribute while also nominating someone of unknown judicial expertise. Harriet Miers might have still been confirmed had she consistently demonstrated a high level of constitutional acumen. This...
...instance, there was the bitter strike of Hollywood screenwriters, partly over the studios' insistence that the writers accept a rollback of the rerun payments called residuals. Studio executives were saying writers had to make some sacrifices in the leaner economic conditions the industry was facing. Then, in an article in the New Yorker, Joan Didion pointed out that the total received in residuals by all 9,000 members of the Writers Guild was $58 million and that Eisner's 1987 compensation was an estimated $63 million...
...large is the People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.)? Big, but still trailing the 1.4 million-member U.S. armed forces in terms of technology and equipment. Beijing has been transforming its military into a leaner, more effective fighting machine. This year it plans to cut troop numbers by 200,000, bringing its total to 2.3 million, while upgrading its strategic missiles, aircraft, warships and submarines...
...Because of his persuasion, Powers, who had been born in Uxbridge, thirty-six miles from Fenway, was shunned and ridiculed by his colleagues. As Aeschylus knew, exile doesn?t dampen the inner flames, it fans them. Powers walked about Manhattan subsisting on his unreasonable dreams of hope, becoming leaner but prouder and more defiant. Such people are dangerous, and by 1965 Powers was poised to commit a desperate...