Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accurate, if pessimistic, assessments of his policies. Two decades later, Barnet explores the methods of American leadership and the reasons they fail to cope with the "politics of scarcity," revealing the extent to which manipulation of the world's natural resources influences our lives, in his latest book, The Lean Years...
...Lean Years, Barnet writes that the same situation led to Carter's down-the-wire support of the deadweight Shah of Iran in 1978. In the midst of Tehran riots, the director of the National Foreign Estimate of the CIA, Robert Bowie, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to give an optimistic report...
...main target was the rescue plan. Some critics charge that it was too lean and spare, with far too few men and aircraft to overwhelm the militants holding the embassy in crowded Tehran, pick up the hostages and escape safely. On the other hand, other critics argue that the plan was too sophisticated and complex, with too many staging points and too many chances for detection before the assault on the embassy...
...lean, dark-eyed man of forty-three whose brown hair was beginriing to turn gray, Talese was not entirely a stranger to the people in the room. He had visited Sandstone often in the past ... and his book-in-progress had already received inordinate amounts of publicity ... Most of what had been written about Talese in the press, however, had been jocularly presented, strongly suggesting that his reportorial technique as a 'participating observer' in the world of erotica-his patronage of massage parlors, his dark afternoons in X-rated cinemas, his intimate familiarity with swing clubs and orgiasts...
Inflation, Communist style, is real, though artificially repressed. In the U.S.S.R. and elsewhere, state subsidies hold down the prices of some necessities, and the government pays the bill by keeping wages lean. Bureaucratic ministries are slow to make minor price adjustments. Thus, when prices do increase, they explode. Last year Czechoslovak children's clothing jumped 200% and Hungarian bread went up 50%. At the same time, consumers regularly face shortages. In Communist countries, the block-long queue at meat