Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first and most obvious problem has to do with money. Unlike the newly fashionable lean and mean corporations, symphonic ensembles cannot readily strip down. It takes the same number of musicians -- about 100 -- to play a Strauss tone poem today as it did a century ago, and a major Beethoven symphony still requires almost an hour to perform. Orchestras raise funds through ticket sales (about 35% of their income), government funding and private donations, but income is hard pressed to keep up with expenditures even when an orchestra is performing to near capacity houses...
...lean fare flops, fast-food chains are beefing up menus...
Nothing wrong at all, agree the giants of the fast-food business, who are paying renewed attention to faithful customers like Minturn. After years of putting "lean" and "light" items on menus in a largely futile effort to attract dieters and the health conscious, the industry is focused again on its original mission of delivering loads of yummy, juicy calories as quickly and cheaply as possible. Challenged by competition from new steakhouses, ethnic eateries and drive-through restaurants, the fast-food chains are offering -- and customers are buying -- more generous portions of traditional favorites: bigger burgers, heftier pizzas, and fries...
...Wendy's lean burger never made it past the company's taste testers, but its double cheeseburger is selling well; in August the chain plans to unveil a Big Bacon Classic in new ads featuring portly founder Dave Thomas. Burger King, which saw its Weight Watchers line of meals flop, has enlarged its fish sandwich 45% and rechristened it "the Big Fish." Kentucky Fried Chicken, after a disastrous experience with skin-free chicken, is having far more success with Popcorn Chicken II, a breaded, calorie-packed, dark-meat appetizer...
...always was sharp in math," his father says. "He never needed a calculator. He could do it in his head faster. I was hoping he would lean to business. But I didn't interfere...