Word: leanness
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...Australia, like other liberal democracies, justly celebrates an enlightened system of government. The individual's freedom is fenced all around by rights and safeguards that over the centuries have coalesced into a mighty protective shield. But these rights lean upon and support each other - and who presumes to measure their relative importance? As in the children's game, one stick carelessly removed could bring the whole structure down...
...main responsibilities: fighting inflation and fostering orderly growth. The two are sometimes at odds, and every Fed chairman must choose which way to lean. Greenspan, like Paul Volcker before him, is a proven inflation fighter. But Bernanke shows signs of tolerating rising prices. When the economy was threatened with deflation (generally falling prices) a few years ago, "he among all the Fed governors was most vocal about the need to generate inflation," says Alan Wild, a global fixed-income manager for Barings Bank. In November 2002, Bernanke publicly spoke of options, citing Milton Friedman's famous "helicopter drop" of money...
...brown hair is tied back in a neat ponytail; her body is greyhound-lean. She walks toward the Inn at Harvard, leather flats slapping the edges of the cobblestone. She enters the imposing lobby and summons the elevator to the fourth floor. A circle of chattering maids scatters as the girl, a Harvard senior, steps out into the carpeted hallway...
...Gutenberg, meet my little brother. He is a not-so-lean, preteen, book-loathing student of the fifth grade. Even when bribed to read with a late bedtime, cookies and milk—for him, the equivalent of a postponed death sentence and a last supper at Ruth’s Chris—he abstains, staring all too wistfully at the nearest blank television screen. So in searching for a way to challenge his plastic mind without turning him and it off, this summer I found a surprising solution: The Cartoon Network show “Family...
...food itself might not be the healthiest out there, given that we serve burgers, fries, and hot chicken sandwiches, it is made by using the best ingredients,” co-owner Anthony Ackil ’99 said. B.good’s ingredients include freshly-ground lean hamburger meat, made-from-scratch veggie burgers, and a variety of whole grain options. The menu will mainly feature b.good’s signature hamburger and veggie burgers. Other items will include salads, hot and cold sandwiches, milkshakes, and a limited number of dinner entrees. Since b.good intends to stay...