Word: leaners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nostrand, a staff director for National Young Voters for Nixon: "If the President calls and says, 'I need 500 kids at a press conference,' we can get them there in 20 minutes." Outside the convention hall, the protesting youths (and their elders) that were gathering had a leaner, hungrier look than the more casual and less dedicated dissidents at the Democratic Convention...
...average 192 Ibs. of meat eaten by Americans. Imports have been low partly because of quotas and partly because of quality. While Americans savor the well-marbled steaks and tender roasts that come from grain-fed cattle, foreign ranchers generally raise grass-fed cattle, which produces leaner meat. In the U.S., imported beef is usually ground up into hamburgers and hot dogs...
...average ratio was one colonel for every 3,000 men. Mansfield's point is that the U.S. military in Europe has grown top-heavy. "It is my conviction," he says, "that trimming away the fat in the form of excess supplies and headquarters will result in a leaner, more mobile and more efficient combat force." Besides, Mansfield has persistently argued "that although the deployment of American troops in Europe shows the flag and acts as a trip wire to Warsaw Pact aggression, this could be accomplished just as readily with a greatly reduced force...
...greater chance for involvement in social issues. He spent one recent summer writing for the liberal New Republic, another working with Nader's Raiders, where he helped assemble a scathing report on personnel practices at the Federal Trade Commission. One law school acquaintance calls him "a left leaner from the right side of the tracks." Tricia insists that Cox is a registered Republican. "He considers himself an independent," she said at a press conference last week. But "I think he'd vote for my father if he ran again...
Tillinghast staged the demonstration to show the industry's progress in curbing air pollution by modifying jet-engine combustion chambers to burn a leaner fuel on takeoff. This eliminates smoke, though not invisible gases like carbon monoxide. TWA is spending $2,000,000 to alter its engines this way; all U.S. airlines are pledged to achieve smokeless takeoffs by 1973, which may cost the lines as much as $100 million...