Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were in Nome, Alaska, and we were in a little lean-to shack. All we had was a hoagie and a bombardier skidoo. So we burned the bandmates, got warm, ate our hoagie and rode off on the bombardier skidoo...
...should also sit up straight, Petersen says. A slight lean forward shows that you are listening...
...technology, it's worth noting that no domesticated animal is more intelligent than its wild, undomesticated ancestor. Compare a domesticated dog with a wolf or a coyote, and the tame dog will come up short. Intelligence evolves in response to heavy selective pressures in the struggle for survival. The lean, mean environment of the urban poor, not the "pop genetics" of the affluent suburbs, is already producing some of our next generation's geniuses. JOHN W. HOOPES Lawrence, Kans...
...love to hate. He also attracted some attention when he decided to drop negative ads from his second Senate race. "His stances on campaign issues have tended to put him apart," says Cole. "But it is also true that he has tended to adopt views on most issues that lean to the left." How that mix will play out for him on the ultimate question of President Clinton's guilt remains to be seen -- and could provide some of the only spontaneity in this rigidly partisan exercise...
...Albright wants the Russians to accept a renegotiation of existing treaties to allow Washington to build an anti-missile defense system; to limit their ties with Iran; and to lean on the Serbs over the Kosovo issue. "There may be an undercurrent of resentment," says Meier, "but their economic situation will compel the Russians to give up on some issues." Of course if they play ball politically and don't get the financial payoff, the post-Yeltsin U.S.-Russia relationship could turn pretty frosty...