Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost certain to become the new line's chairman and chief executive officer. In his nine years at the controls of the North Western, he has engineered it from an antiquated, dying road that was losing more than $5,000,000 a year into a lean, modern line that has earned profits of more than $8,000,000 in each of the past two years. Spurning Government subsidies, Heineman has employed modern technology-from computers to helicopters-to cut his expenses and win back business from the highways. He led the fight against railroad featherbedding, enduring a costly strike...
Recalling the loss of their first three matches, freshman wrestling coach John Lee said, "It looked like a lean year." But he felt that the team had greatly developed during the season, and he agreed with manager Charlie Howland's statement that. "If we had had the team we have now, we wouldn't have lost a match...
...suggested overruling the separate-but-equal doctrine-a point that finally won school desegregation in 1954. Stress "important irrelevancies," Lawyer Charles Abrams of the American Jewish Congress once advised. Amid, he said, should provide "arguments that will salvage the judges' consciences or square with their prepossessions should they lean toward holding...
Spain's other touted economy is that if the director doesn't like the weather, all he has to do is drive a little. Thus David Lean of Zhivago, who had traveled 30,000 miles to find a snowy steppeland for his winter scenes, was assured he need go no further than Soria in the Spanish Pyrenees. "Just like Russia," promised the mayor, counting up the take for the local economy. M-G-M was convinced, built a whole Russian village, a rail line and a river-diverting dam. Only the snows never came, and when Lean went...
Bailing Out Bronston. The sinking feeling was shared by the Spanish government, which has long cultivated the movie trade. Though it fatuously forbade Lean to play the Internationals during Zhivago's revolutionary skirmishes, Madrid laboriously rounded up turn-of-the-century rail equipment (still in use) and Russian weapons captured during the Civil War. It also promised a squadron of mounted police to play Moscow dragoons. When they didn't show, Lean fell back on some gypsy cavalry, who have already been Moors in El Cid, Boxers in 55 Days in Peking, Macedonians in Alexander the Great...