Word: leanness
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...midst of lean financial times, the Harvard College Library will continue to make changes to increase fiscal efficiency, even as it maintains promising new Internet initiatives, library administrators told the Faculty Council yesterday...
Payout from the endowment, Harvard’s greatest source of income, will see just a meager increase next fiscal year as the University continues to hold its schools to lean budgets even as its investment returns surge...
...Bring us the evidence" is the public message on corruption from Sandi Peisley, commander of ramsi's Participating Police Force. "No one is above the law." The earthy and lean Peisley, an assistant commissioner in the Australian Federal Police who doubles as deputy commissioner of the RSIP, has just returned from the historic swearing-in of the first new-era police recruits, more than half of them women. Frontline officers speak about the 400-plus purge from the RSIP without regret; they are now working alongside 260 police from around the Pacific who are mentoring both old and new officers...
...going to find a few who are pretty much driven from the right and a few who are driven from the left. And you're going to find a whole lot more somewhere in the middle. But both parties are driven by constituent groups. We tend to lean on them very heavily, [so Senators will] be good soldiers rather than try to find something in the middle. And that's the way it is often reported in the press with the use of athletic terms--particularly boxing terms...
...devout Christian, has expressed outrage at the notion that "God has somehow become some wholly owned subsidiary of political conservatism in this country." Labor needs, he said, to connect with voters "who are searching for some form of certainty in an age of great uncertainty." Social conservatives often lean left on other issues, says Wallace, so the values vote is "winnable by both sides." Labor has missed out on that vote because it's failed to articulate firm core values, says University of Melbourne sociologist Kevin McDonald, who contrasts the Howard government's clear "vision of moral purpose" with Labor...