Word: leanings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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While the policy objectives of the two candidates are not that different, there are points of major contention. One major clash is strategic: Royal calls for a partnership with centrists to recapture national power, while Aubry rejects that in favor of an opposite lean to hook up with Green, Communist and other leftist parties. The more explosive rub involves style. Aubry is staid and wonky, and she prefers more orthodox-sounding leftist pronouncements. Royal has a high-profile-celebrity quotient and a highly personalized communication style focused on modernity and change, frequently featuring frontal attacks on Sarkozy...
...their restructuring and to ensure a stronger, more competitive auto industry." For its part, Ford, which is the strongest of the Big Three and, many believe, capable of surviving the fallout from a GM bankruptcy, said, "We have a great plan that will continue Ford's transformation into a lean, profitable company that delivers the safe, fuel-efficient, high-quality new products that our customers want and value...
...Steven J. Russell says he was attracted to Joslin by Kahn’s reputation as a mentor, and by his work with the recently developed fat-specific insulin receptor knockout mouse, a genetically modified animal whose fat cells are unaffected by insulin. The lean, long-lived mouse holds potential for treating diabetes and aging in general, and it is only one of the many topics studied in Kahn’s interdisciplinary, collaborative...
...more modern, and possibly more significant, effect: the cell-phone effect. Polling is done by telephone to land-line customers. Surveys don't reach those who have abandoned land lines for cell phones - voters who are by and large younger and less prejudiced. While Bradley-effect voters may lean Republican, the unsurveyed cell-phone-effect voters will be leaning, and voting, Democratic. Chris Chrisman, Los Angeles
...There is something horribly efficient about you,” Camille (Olga Kurylenko) says to a certain British spy halfway through “Quantum of Solace,” the lean new action flick masquerading as a James Bond movie. Lead writer Paul Haggis has continued to take a chainsaw to the 007 formula, and here, as in “Casino Royale,” paring away the franchise’s unnecessary affectations—cars with rocket launchers, Moneypenny, martinis done a very certain way—has paid off. Screaming through its 106-minute runtime...