Word: leaning
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...hinted that he would consider a change in strategy if his generals proposed one. Meanwhile, General George Casey spoke at a Pentagon press conference about the pros and cons of adding more troops to stabilize Baghdad - something the Bush team has resisted for months. And the President seemed to lean rhetorically on the coming recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, led by James Baker and Lee Hamilton, who are in their own hunt for a new strategy...
Hopefully the forthcoming British Broadcasting Corporation series tie-in with the book will lean more toward the reasoned analysis of the bulk of the book, emphasizing the motivations and ambiguities of all the actors in this transatlantic epic, rather than rely on the cheap “Americans are hypocrites” shot...
...McCall, as TXU's head of wholesale operations, says he needs a low-cost, reliable supply of electricity fast. Plans for nuclear facilities will take nearly a decade to develop. Coal is quicker. Using the company's new "lean academy" philosophy (based on Toyota's manufacturing system), TXU can build all 11 coal-fired plants, cookie-cutter style, with the first online in 2009. Coal gasification simply isn't in TXU's plans, primarily because of problems with the high moisture content of the cheaper Texas and Wyoming coal it buys. Waiting until the next decade, when new technologies...
Before Iraq, the technology of arm prostheses hadn't changed much since World War II. The tiny population of amputees created little market incentive. Miguelez used the burst in demand from Walter Reed to lean on manufacturers for progress. Before long, he was outfitting Iraq war amputees with an electronic hand that opened and closed 2 1/2 times faster and could be programmed to function at different speeds and grip strength...
...trained clinical psychologists to have graduated from high school. But don’t be too forthcoming, or your NoDoz addiction might be featured on the despicably unethical http://room13.blogspot.com. And don’t worry- if you’re ever on your last leg, you can always lean on our third...