Word: leaner
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...strategy also reflects how defense and security challenges have changed. Sarkozy said terrorism was the biggest threat to French security, and he pledged to create a leaner, more mobile and better-equipped army. He called for a doubling of the intelligence budget for new satellites, drones and other surveillance equipment - but plans to offset that by trimming the army, navy and air force from 271,000 troops to 224,000, with the army alone set for a 24% cut in personnel. Some 50 military bases, garrisons and other defense facilities are to be closed in a move that has already...
...second time in as many years, to create a campaign that can win on a big scale. His previous attempt to run as the institutional candidate, with a projected nine-figure budget, failed spectacularly last July and nearly forced him out of the G.O.P. race. Though his campaign is leaner than his rival's, McCain says he is happy with the progress. "I am pleased with the way the campaign is going," he said just before Memorial Day weekend in an airplane hangar in California's Central Valley. "I think we are going pretty well." But even as he spoke...
...Flurry of action here now. Both teams are scoring pretty easily. Penn's Grandieri has another offensive rebound putback and another layup on a pretty pass into the post. But, Harvard counters with a McGeary three, following a pretty Lin leaner as the shot clock dwindled low and two Housman free throws. Harvard 74, Penn...
Many are about to find out. On Jan. 1, Philips unleashed its latest simplification: a leaner company structure that cuts its divisions from five to three. The sleek new shape, Philips hopes, will help boost its profit margin, before tax, interest and other charges, from last year's 7.7% to beyond 10% by 2010. That would add some $900 million to those earnings based on last year's sales of $39 billion. Preoccupied with its overhaul in recent years, "we haven't been growing to our potential," admits Gerard Kleisterlee, 61, Philips' CEO since 2001. Reversing that, he says, means...
...think I'm better with a leaner kind of campaign. Less bureaucracy, more quick to react. Close friends. I enjoy that a lot--to have people who are basically my peers. They're not a group of subordinates who are telling me what they think I want to hear...