Word: leanness
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...month after De Lorean left GM, he wed Fashion Model Cristina Ferrare, then 22. The two had a daughter: Kathryn, now 8. "Cristina and I have an idyllic relationship," he said recently. Cristina agreed: "Every night, I pray to God and thank Him. Then I lean over and touch John and thank him too." They settled into a two-story apartment on New York's Fifth Avenue and spent weekends on a $3.5 million, 430-acre estate in rural New Jersey, an hour from Manhattan. They also own a lush 48-acre spread in California's San Diego County...
Millions of Americans traditionally head for their television sets on fall and winter Sundays with the faithfulness of salmon going upstream. With a beer in one hand and a bowl of pretzels near the other, the fans lean back to watch the professional football wars. The four-week-long National Football League strike, though, has halted those happy hours. The living-room quarterbacks now have little better to do than mow the lawn or wash...
...Shamir was at M.I.T. in the late '70s as an associate professor of mathematics, and in fact helped write the M.I.T. code that competes head-on with Stanford's. Last spring, back in his spartan, second-floor office in the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, the lean, blue-jeaned mathematician settled the old wager: he found a way to unravel the original Stanford system. The code Shamir broke after four years of hard work was no Buck Rogers-Dick Tracy cipher. It was a charter member, along with the M.I.T. code, of the new "public key" family...
...such large, well-capitalized corporations as Braniff Airways, Wickes Cos., Saxon Industries and De Lorean Motor Co. Says Purdue University Professor William Dunkelberg: "The recession is performing the age-old process of creating leaner, meaner and more efficient firms. Unfortunately, the recession has also cut heavily into the lean and mean. We've lost established companies to low demand and high debt...
...person, Steiner speaks slowly, pausing before answering questions, weighing every word and often talking so softly as to require a listener to lean far forward. He is quite modest, explaining his recent promotion by saying simply. "My responsibilities have changed sufficiently." At a brief Mass Hall session last week. O'Brien toasted his new fellow vice president and reported afterwards that Steiner was "a little bit embarrassed to be recognized publicly, but pleased...