Word: leanest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once the eye gets used to the quirks and secrecies of his inimitable shorthand, it discovers how deeply regional an artist he was. His leanest years were in Paris in the early '20s when, he claimed later, he was obliged to live on dried figs and use the hallucinations caused by hunger to loosen up his imagery. Even then Miró managed to raise the money to journey back to his family village of Montroig, a community of farmers and peasant craftsmen, where he spent six months of every year...
...only is passenger traffic running 3.2% ahead of 1970, but the lines have laid off some 10,000 employees, deferred $185 million worth of new plane orders, eliminated about 700 flights from their schedules, and otherwise cut operating costs to the leanest levels in years. The CAB last April granted the trunks a 6% fare increase and is expected to permit another 3% rise this spring. The wage controls of Phase II will probably help hold down the industry's labor costs, which have risen at least 43% per employee since 1966 and account for nearly half...