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...cent decrease in population would reduce the number of jobs even more since allocations are based on total population and unemployment. "We are already in a lean year, so any further cutbacks will just hurt more," Reidy added...
There were no losers at Blodgett Pool last night. Sure, the final score on the board--29-5--seemed to lean a bit ponderously towards the UCLA side of the pool, but no one at the Harvard end shed any tears, either...
...brokers had hitherto respected Mesa as a well-run company, but felt that it had too many large tracts of older wells. Aggressive investors usually look for small firms with assets concentrated in new drilling fields. By unloading its aging wells, Mesa transformed its image to that of a lean and hungry company oriented toward exploration...
...beginning of the end was World War I, and one of the casualties was the servant mentality; the upper class no longer had a lower one to lean on. The country house survived a little longer, and even had a renaissance during the '20s and '30s, when the Evelyn Waugh crowd made elfin sport amid the topiaries. World War II and all that followed it, most notably extortionate taxes and the declining British economy, finally put these gay places to rest. A book like this, which has pedestrian prose but enchanting pictures, is perhaps the best memorial...
...President not simply disavow his brother's connection with Libya? 3) At a time when he knew that Billy's work for Libya was under investigation by the Justice Department, why did he use Billy as a back-channel route to try to get Libya to lean on Iran to free the American hostages held in Tehran...