Word: leanest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could've-been-a-contenders among us. Brando at his leanest, both figuratively and literally...
...That the show's leanest and most bloated companies are all obsessed with connectivity, however, doesn't mean that they actually talk to each other. Just look at the push to bring wireless networking to the home. The category is irresistible -- who doesn't want to be able to surf from the sofa or back porch? -- but the standards are anything but. Here's a quick run-down. MORE...
...even in the leanest machine, it's hard to avoid such accoutrements of the '90s as logo-design consultants, glossy blue press packets and focus groups that mall-test key words to see which ones grab people's attention. Deaver's p.r. firm, Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, is billing its services at a 20% discount; Deaver is donating his. Powell is not going to put up with the kind of waste made notorious by charity balls and the United Way scandal, in which money was spent to raise more money and lavished on salary and perks. The two founding partners...
Such tension and turmoil do not have to continue. Year-to-year fluctuations aside, economists and executives generally agree that the U.S. has built the best-balanced, leanest, most efficient base for steady growth that it has had in decades. Workers can only add the fervent wish: after all the pain it has cost us to get here, don't blow...
...their minds," he says. "This is a difficult period of the revolution, but I wouldn't even think about doing it, no matter how bad things get here. It's just too dangerous." Felix, 38, manager of a government-run bodega, complains that supplies are the leanest he has ever seen. "I don't see how they can send any less and expect us to survive," he says. He feels guilty when customers complain. "But what can I do?" he asks -- a depressingly familiar refrain throughout Cuba these days...