Word: leaning
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That scared the U.S. into action. John Kornblum, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs, was dispatched to the region last week to lean on Milosevic, but the Serb President has his own interests to protect. Karadzic is still popular with Bosnian Serbs, and Milosevic, who is not, would only lose ground by removing him. He may have good reason not to hand Karadzic or Mladic over to the Hague, since they are among the few potential witnesses who could confirm his own complicity in war crimes. Yet Milosevic badly needs Western economic aid and diplomatic approval...
Even with NASA's support, the NEO hunters have had to scrounge from industry and other donors for much of their equipment. "Times have been very lean in this past year," says Helin. "There've been times when I was receiving no salary at all." Despite the travails, however, Shoemaker is confident that improving technology will enable astronomers, even at the current level of funding, to identify perhaps 50% of the NEOs in the next decade...
...opinions. And one could write the truth. Dozens of newspapers and periodicals appeared; the print runs of even exclusively literary monthlies were in the millions. People bought these things, read them, collected them. Today in the cramped, cluttered apartments of intellectuals, against walls, on windowsills, on top of closets, lean stacks of dusty clippings and books from that era, like so much abandoned and sad-looking military debris in a field where a battle was once fought...
...Kong is for later. The Stratosphere's immediate and unique enticement is the 12-level, spaceship-shaped "pod" at the top of the tower. Along with the conference rooms, wedding chapels and inevitable revolving restaurant there is an observation deck whose huge slanted windows allow you to lean over and peek at the ground; because the building's spine is barely visible beneath, you feel you are hovering over Vegas in the Enterprise. Ascending three more levels, you find two things that no one before Stupak thought to put atop a skyscraper: a roller coaster and a space-launch reverse...
...Another lean Broadway season is sputtering to a close, and as usual before the Tony Awards, there is a flutter of activity. Last week two bright dancey shows opened: Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk, a black tap-dance revue developed downtown at the New York Shakespeare Festival; and Big, a more conventional musical based on the 1988 movie that starred Tom Hanks. Both have broad appeal; neither fulfills all its potential...