Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of guy who would publicly declare in the midst of an endless shoot with revered, meticulous David Lean that it was "like building the Taj Mahal out of toothpicks." Or sum up his hardworking, half-century career this way: "You don't get to do better; you just get to do more...
Gunnison still has a chance, thanks to an unlikely coalition of conservative ranchers and left-leaning environmentalists who have put aside their cultural differences and teamed up to launch a grass-roots campaign to save ranches from the bulldozers. The Gunnison Legacy Project, as the effort is known, is the brainchild of Susan Lohr, a soft-spoken ornithologist from California, and Bill Trampe, a lean, crusty rancher whose family has been in the valley for three generations. The bird watcher and the cowboy, as Lohr and Trampe are sometimes called, hope to save 3,000 acres of ranchland...
...tree in the parking lot. We call it the Survivor Tree. Julie always liked to park her little red Grand Am on the east side of that tree, in the shade. Now it's the only living thing left in this place. When I go there, sometimes I lean against the trunk, close my eyes, listen to the leaves and think about the way it used to be. Then I go down to the fence, and strangers will sometimes ask me questions: "Where was the front door to the building?" or "Where was the truck parked?" Then I tell them...
...shortwave radio, calling on "any nation in the world" for assistance. "We have hostiles in the woods," he cried. "We are being invaded!" But no one came to his aid, and his supporters were beginning to trickle away. Even the ambassador's wife had decided to leave the combination lean-to and trailer that was designated the "embassy compound." Thus, shortly after 4 p.m. on Saturday, with barely the pretense of extraterritoriality, Rick McLaren, self-declared "ambassador, consul-general and chief foreign legal officer" of the separatist Republic of Texas, ended his 6 1/2-day standoff against America, laid down...
That is a zealot's stretch. But the trend toward "strategic philanthropy"--giving in a way that benefits the corporate bottom line--is unmistakable. In the lean and mean 1990s, companies are taking a close look at where every penny they give away goes. More and more, they are focusing on areas that resonate with their customers. So Whirlpool, whose main customers are mothers, concentrates on funding things like child care and job training for women...