Word: leaning
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SPENCE + LILA by Bobbie Ann Mason (Harper & Row; $12.95). The author of Shiloh and Other Stories offers a lean novel about a Kentucky farmer and his ailing wife, a love story so pure and enduring that it might have been carved with a jackknife on an old tree...
Spanglish is a sort of code for Latinos: the speakers know Spanish, but their hybrid language reflects the American culture in which they live. Many lean to shorter, clipped phrases in place of the longer, more graceful expressions their parents used. Says Leonel de la Cuesta, an assistant professor of modern languages at Florida International University in Miami: "In the U.S., time is money, and that is showing up in Spanglish as an economy of language." Conversational examples: taipiar (type) and winshi- wiper (windshield wiper) replace escribir a maquina and limpiaparabrisas...
...least, Carlucci's moves will set guidelines for his successors in dealing with the new lean era. Beyond that? Well, Michael Dukakis has praised Carlucci for beginning to face up to the hard choices that must be made. This has led to speculation that Carlucci, who has already served one Democratic President (as deputy director of the CIA under Jimmy Carter), might continue to head the Pentagon through a Dukakis Administration. Dukakis "could do a lot worse," says Senator Nunn. In a Bush Administration, Carlucci would be a natural holdover, as well as a candidate for Secretary of State...
...tide began to recede in 1986, when Congress for the first time under Reagan cut the Pentagon budget below the previous year's. It did so again in 1987, and in 1988 allowed only modest growth, well below inflation. The 1989 budget will be the fourth relatively lean one in a row. Weinberger not only fought the trend, infuriating Congress by refusing even to discuss reductions, he continued to plan for future spending as if the Pentagon could count on once again getting a blank check. Last November, however, he resigned, to be succeeded by Carlucci, a veteran...
Actually, network executives claimed, the TV armada was comparatively lean this time. Each network sent between 80 and 100 people to Moscow -- "barely enough to do what we needed to do," asserted CBS News President Howard Stringer. Though the summit dominated regularly scheduled newscasts, none of the three networks aired a prime-time or late-night special on the subject. And except for CNN (which devoted about 50% of its schedule to the doings in Moscow), live coverage was relatively sparse. When Reagan appeared at Moscow State University on Tuesday for an extraordinary question-and-answer session, CNN carried...