Word: leanness
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...clipped, booming voice. Instead, he wears thick glasses, with what looks like a false nose under them. He turns his athletic energy inward to present a man nearly imploding with pent tension. He intones that Odetsian odes in a whisper, so that everyone, not just on screen, would lean in closer, the more vulnerable to his bite when he struck...
Sharon's room for maneuvering--between seeking a truce and initiating hostilities--is constrained in part by the political environment in which he operates. He heads a coalition government that relies on both an ultra-right and a center-left faction. Thus he cannot lean too far in either direction without risking that one of the coalition members will quit, bringing his government down. If that were to happen, new elections would follow. With Israelis in a hawkish mood, Sharon's right-wing Likud Party would almost surely make significant electoral gains. But Sharon might not be his party...
...worse: lumping North Korea, Iran and Iraq in a (speechwriter-coined) "axis of evil"; the disdain for the Geneva Conventions shown in the early treatment of prisoners at Camp X-Ray; his repudiation of the Kyoto climate accords in favor of voluntary compliance by U.S. industry; a refusal to lean on Israel, or even to engage deeply in the peace process, for six months as violence has soared; and his decision last week to set tariffs on steel imports, which violate trade rules, to score domestic political points - even though Bush's approval ratings are still stratospheric. The tariff move...
...DOES THEM BEST For women, the layback spin is the showpiece, and both Hughes and Cohen are flexible enough to lean back with shoulders parallel to the ice while stretching their free leg into a perfect "attitude" position, up and away from the body...
...explain IBM? Big Blue is no house of cards. Recently departed CEO Lou Gerstner turned a flabby dinosaur into the nation's biggest tech survival and revival story by transforming it into a lean-and-mean IT services company. And he did it just as a nation of IT purchasers, their budgets gone bust, needed services most of all. The result: IBM emerged from the tech downturn with loyal customers, long-term service contracts, high earnings and low costs...