Word: leanness
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...film hit double figures in the nominations tally, because none of the front-runners was the sort of megaproduction or David Lean-style period piece that can run up a half-dozen citations in the categories devoted to technical expertise (sound editing) or frou-frou artistry (art direction, costumes). These are all "people" movies and "issue" movies...
...WHAT YOU EAT--AND DRINK Danish scientists staked out grocery stores and found that people who buy wine instead of beer also buy healthier foods. Wine buyers purchased more olives, fruits, vegetables, poultry, low-fat milk and lean meat. Beer buyers rang up more cold cuts, chips, sausages, butter and sodas...
...state. But neither Governor Brad Henry nor his state disaster chief could get calls returned from FEMA in Dallas. "You just would not believe what they have put us through," said a Republican Congressman from Oklahoma. Political leaders from both parties finally asked the White House to lean on the agency. The "full-court press," as Henry spokesman Paul Sund calls it, worked: the aid was approved last week. A FEMA official noted that the agency had okayed 24 smaller fire grants for the state and wanted to be sure the broader application for help was justified...
...seems certain. Specter, for one, has promised hearings early in the year--a move, sources tell TIME, that the White House is hoping to head off by convincing the Senator to defer to the Intelligence Committee, whose hearings would be behind closed doors and classified. "They're going to lean on Specter very hard not to hold hearings," says a Republican official. Bush has warned that any public hearings on programs would simply tip off terrorists and invite them to adjust their tactics, and he says, "This...
...walked trails leading processions of porters toting pickaxes, shovels, bales of wire and plastic tarpaulins?the tools needed to build improvised shelters for survivors whose homes had been shaken into rubble. In late November, he went to check up on five widows for whom he had built lean-tos on a steep mountainside above the city of Muzaffarabad, not far from the quake's epicenter. To his dismay, George discovered that the structures had been torn down and the widows were gone...