Word: leaner
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Penn sophomore Jewel Clark, who led the Quakers with 16 points, cut the Crimson lead to one with an inside shot through traffic at the one-minute mark. But Cserny answered with a leaner over two Penn defenders to push the lead back to 58-55 with 33 seconds left...
...inability to let go. "It's happened on every Pixar movie," Jobs confesses. It's also what he did when Ive presented him with a plastic model of what was to be the new iMac. It looked like the old iMac on a no-carb diet, a leaner iMac in the Zone. "There was nothing wrong with it," recalls Jobs. "It was fine. Really, it was fine." He hated...
Saturday’s game brought out a different side of this Harvard club. The Crimson’s 50-48 loss to Princeton on Friday—which ended abruptly with a game-tying leaner by junior Sam Winter falling just short—seemed like the furthest thing from the team’s minds...
...Robert Eckert plans to slash 1,300 jobs and shutter the firm's last U.S. plant (most toys are made in low-wage Southeast Asia and China.) He has moved product-development teams from El Segundo, Calif., to Hong Kong, where they can better coordinate manufacturing. Result: a leaner, nimbler operation, with toys shipped to retailers earlier in the season to avoid supply disruptions...
...license to the private sector to restructure ? firing people, closing down divisions, retrenching from overseas operations ? more quickly and drastically. Sept. 11 may be to the 2000s what the junk bonds and leveraged buyouts were for the 1980s. Companies will clean up their acts and become leaner and more competitive...