Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...native black swine, the so-called cochon planche, has long been a combination bank account, mobile garbage-disposal unit and occasional religious prop. Haitian farmers, among the world's poorest, have relied on the pigs to produce income for medical care, weddings, funerals and education. The long-legged, lean porker was also a helpful consumer of weeds and even human wastes. And of no small importance, hougans (priests) regularly appease their demanding Petro gods with the blood of a black pig, the preferred sacrificial symbol of voodoo...
Indeed, it is hard to reconcile this lean heavy hitter with memories of the chubby adolescent who came out of Eastern Europe more than a decade ago with an unreliable backhand, a gentle disposition that led her to give away games, and a sweet tooth for capitalism's material delights. Hard to reconcile this figure too with the bewildered defector of 1975, or the girl who cried in 1981 over her inability to win the U.S. Open. With astonishing grit she has overcome all that, while retaining, with people she trusts, the rather innocent and witty honesty that...
...structures used commercially will be forced to take smaller depreciation deductions and will thus pay more to the Internal Revenue Service. So will some people who earn widely fluctuating incomes; the rules under which they can average the high earnings of a fat year with the low incomes of lean years for tax purposes will be tightened...
Reagan unabashedly used Scoop, but did so in a way that honored his memory, his family and his country. The President threw out his big arms and gathered everybody in-Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, Jew, Baptist, old, young, hawk, dove, hardhat, tycoon. And none of them could argue, only lean back and enjoy the political theater that Reagan had adroitly and effortlessly stage-managed...
...claimed from an early age that he was fated to lead the Sikhs in their struggle for autonomy. Gradually distancing himself from the more moderate Akali Dal, Bhindranwale began in 1981 to use holy places as sanctuaries and military training grounds for Sikh fundamentalists rallying around him. The tall, lean leader always wore a sword as well as a .38 Smith & Wesson revolver on a gun belt with silver bullets. He preached that Sikhs were a religious group apart from Hindus and Muslims, with a divine destiny to rule themselves and escape the corrupt influences of Hindu and Western values...