Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking to a small group of students after the dinner, Sears warned of the coming budget cuts that will result from the enactment of Proposition 2 1/2. "The first year after Proposition 2 1/2 will be lean," Sears said, adding that there will be extensive cuts in essential services, such as schools, hospitals and the fire and police departments...
...road" and has doubled its initial circulation of 200,000 in its first year. Sometimes, to get attention, it asks unanswerable questions on its cover ("Will There Ever Be a Jewish President?"). Its current issue, hailing the 1980s, proclaims it the Decade to Remember, foreseeing "fat and not lean years," a revival of Yankee ingenuity, and major advances in medicine...
...came-to-Alaska expoundings of a motley assortment of fast dealers, Dangerous Dan McGrews, crazed clergymen, plain folks, hippies keeping warm and dry and happy snorting cocaine, bartenders, flinty newspaper editors, pipeline workers, various well-and-not-so-well-intentioned politicians, naturalists and whores. All of them seem to lean close and talk confidentially to McGinnis the outsider...
Although the 97th Congress itself will lean much further right than its predecessor, the Republicans are probably a bit premature in their morning-after predictions of a lasting conservative realignment...
...exports to the U.S. Reagan Adviser Glenn Campbell, director of the Hoover Institution, dismayed some Japanese by suggesting last week in Tokyo that Japan take a more active military role to protect its oil shipments from the Persian Gulf. But two other U.S. Asian allies, Thailand and the Philippines, lean toward Reagan. In the Philippines, says a local political analyst, the government of Ferdinand Marcos feels "Reagan would support iany regime, regardless of whether or not it is repressive, so long ias it backs America...