Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gary. Indiana Paul relates this story: at least five times a week his father comes home from work sometime after midnight, having done his time on the middle shift 1 p.m. to midnight at the mill. Apparently he cannot bring himself to go to bed; the heat, the lean and the tension of his work do not allow him to sleep, but instead compel him to turn on an all night local country music station, which he plass so loud that no one else in the house is able to sleep either. Finally, usually around dawn, Paul's father drops...
...Knesset members reflect the informality if their surrounding. No more than three of the men wear ties; most are in open collar shirts and sport jackets. They lean back in their chairs or wander around the chamber, talking loudly with their neighbors while the Israeli defense minister tries to address them from the podium...
...automakers are working on plans to shrink the size and weight of their models, while keeping the interiors as roomy as ever. Engines will be smaller, less powerful and more lean on fuel. The most gas-stingy cars on the U.S. market are imports: the Japanese Honda Civic and the Datsun B-210, which get 39 m.p.g. More light-weight metals will be used. Tires will be smaller, and front ends may be built of plastic. The myriad models that now confuse all but the most ardent car buff will be drastically trimmed-at a substantial savings in production costs...
...fiscal sanity? Both men believe that it is Harvard that must exercise the biggest role. "Harvard is so god-damned paranoid that it is afraid to ask for anything, so there emerges a leadership crisis," Jones says. "As a businessman and Chamber of Commerce president I have chosen to lean heavily on Harvard and MIT for cooperation...
...Yeah, well... I think that... umm ... you know ... uh-hah." Actor Robert DeNiro is not voluble. Nor, offscreen, is he particularly visible. Lean, with lanky brown hair and narrow, green-brown eyes, a pallid face by turns near-handsome and homely, he has the protective coloration of a chameleon...