Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liberal arts college in Lewiston, Me. Andrews' summer savings and the $35 a week he earns as a lifeguard at the college make little dent in the $7,500 tuition and board. Says he: "Cutting financial aid for students is not cutting fat, it's cutting lean...
After two weeks, the militants put Metrinko into a 6-ft. by 8-ft. basement storage room that was furnished with only a mattress. Says Metrinko: "When I was awake, I'd lean it against the wall because you couldn't move around with it on the floor." He spent four months there, volunteering to scrub toilets, mop floors, "do anything that got me out of that hole." He spent many of the hours reading, including The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's grim portrait of Soviet prison life. Says Metrinko dryly: "I can't imagine...
That little monster appears to have grown into Trevor's newest menace, Francis Tyte, 33, a bit-part actor, pathological dissembler, bigamist and homosexual prostitute. Tyte's face, lean and handsome in the Leslie Howard mold, is known to millions of British telly viewers. He is the fellow in the tobacco ad who nonchalantly puffs a pipe while military officers strut by, sniffing...
Houstonians may be more interested in another newly bottled product: oil. Packaged in classic Bordeaux and Burgundy bottles, the black gold selections include Abu Dhabi Premium '59 ("rich and full-bodied, extraordinarily spirited"), Ghawar Valley Saudi Arabian Light '73 ("lively, complex, rich yet lean") and, for connoisseurs of domestic oilages, Texas Heavy Crude '78 ("ready for immediate enjoyment...
TIME'S economists see a lean period ahead for each of Western Europe's four major economies...