Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Virgin Islands, TIME correspondents assessed the struggle this way, as of week's end: 1,104 delegates for Ford, 1,090 for Reagan, 65 uncommitted. The figures (see chart) include projections of delegates to be chosen this week in Utah and Connecticut. Avowedly uncommitted delegates known to lean strongly toward one candidate have been credited to their favorite...
...shocked family-conscious Koreans by abruptly firing two of his three sons who were Samsung managers. "They were not fit to hold executive positions," he explains. "The life of a man is short, but that of a corporation must never be." To keep his companies healthy, Lee keeps them lean. When he started the afternoon newspaper Joongang Ilbo (current circ. 680,000) in 1965, he built up a talented staff of 1,400. Today Joongang has expanded into radio and TV, but still employs only 1,400 people...
During one recent hour-long meeting, he mapped out a course in management fraud for Yale Law School (his alma mater) while rewriting some SEC legislation and fielding half a dozen phone calls. Sporkin has also been known to lean back in a meeting with high-powered business executives for ten minutes of closed-eye contemplation that uncannily resembles sleep-and then deliver a machine-gun burst of pointed questions...
Adlai himself would have some input, of course; even now he is no Daley puppet. Stevenson is known to lean toward the Humphrey-Muskie wing of the party (Daley, on the other hand, dislikes Humphrey). Additionally, there is some reason to believe Stevenson might not yearn to be vice-president. But providing he would accept, it is conceivable Daley might try to pull the whole thing...
...hardness. His nose is bony and defined with a hook that is faintly fierce. His mouth, unlike Jimmy Carter's, does not rest in a smile. Relaxed, it is the mouth of a tennis player who is psyched up and poised, waiting for the serve. He speaks in lean sentences, quoting Aristotle, the Bible, and Dylan Thomas. He tosses erudite quips over the heads of his listeners and so appreciates precision of language that he once signed a well-written petition for Soviet Jews, 'as much for the syntax as the substance...