Word: leans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Douglas Harriman Kennedy, 14 months, stayed home.) Their hair brushed to Sunday-school neatness, wearing their dress navy blues, mother and children were exhibits A through J of the Kennedys' lean physical vitality...
Rittenburg, Harvard's lean captain, had had a great season. Against Dartmouth he had won two first places, tied for another, and taken one second. At Brown he finished first in five events. Even so, everyone expected Yale to pick up its second victory of the season from the Crimson. And--winning nine of 16 first places-- Yale would have won if Rit had not been around...
...significant government intervention in social processse is invariably accompanied by the development of large bureaucracies and intricate regulatory mechanisms and the only way to avoid the latter is eschew the former. That is to say that active government must be Big Government, and only laissez-faire principles can achieve lean administration. Students of public administration have for some time rejected this view, arguing that government bureaucracies are just as likely to burgeon for lack of energetic social policies as in consequence of them. There is no area in which this truth has been more relentlessly displayed than in the field...
...Instead, he wants the university and the colleges to in crease student fees. Mindful of the long record of disorders at Berkeley, not to mention recent demonstrations at San Francisco State and San Jose State colleges, the legislature seems to be in a mood to let the schools stay lean until they stiffen campus discipline...
...meantime, until these returning people take up the slack, the school faces lean times. Sisson places no hope in local draft boards, which, he believes, "have absolutely no more autonomy," and he feels the GSAS must resign itself to a loss of up to one million dollars next year...