Word: leanness
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...Koizumi needs to handle the weakest part of his portfolio, foreign policy. She has infuriated career diplomats and bureaucrats and muffed some basic diplomatic forays Koizumi's plan: He can't dump her; she's too popular inside Japan. So he'll send her on more overseas trips and lean on her to tone down the trash talk Outlook: O.K. Nobody in Japan really cares about foreign policy, so Tanaka provides an entertaining, if raucous, diversion...
...every history book tells us how war renders a President an island unto himself. As Senator Harry Reid observed after leaving a White House meeting in which Bush was surrounded but singularly responsible, "For the 535 of us in Congress, there's always one of us standing around to lean on. He's there alone...
...WEAPONRY Rumsfeld hopes to build the fighting forces of tomorrow, but the brass want more of the weapons of today. After years of lean budgets, they want hardware now. The Pentagon finalized a contract last week for 10 F-22 fighters. And the Army wants to update the M-1 tank. But Bush's budget doesn't provide much new money...
...American pop performer dies, it brings the bluesy core of the music out, and makes the work seem richer, deeper, sadder. Aaliyah's albums, in the wake of her death, are already shooting to the upper reaches of the Amazon.com charts. Listeners hear the blue echo of tragedy and lean in closer. What makes Aaliyah's death particularly tragic is that she was very young and very much at the top of her game. She also seemed to have a lot more to show us. She was improving rapidly as a performer and she was expanding her range...
...precise-looking 48-year-old with close-cropped white hair and a neatly-trimmed goatee, Antoniotti did his own apprenticeship here in the 1960s and lived through the lean years of the '70s and '80s, when cheap quartz watches from the Far East decimated the Swiss industry's traditional market. "If I'd had kids back then, I'd never have advised them to go into this business," he says. But today that trend has been thrown into reverse as watch manufacturers scramble to make up for two decades when recruiting was nonexistent...