Word: leans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appeal of an island is older than prose. It is a universal symbol, as valid for the isolated state as for the besieged heart. In this lean, piercing novel, Lisa Grunwald renews the metaphor by making Sanders Island, off Cape Cod, Mass., a garden and a desert. The narrator, Jennifer Burke, is the younger daughter of what seems an ideal couple: Milo and Lulu Burke are so devoted that they have always refused to fly in separate planes because "they wouldn't have wanted to go on without each other...
...company was hurt last year by the cost of fighting off Corporate Raider T. Boone Pickens and by its money-losing oil-shale plant in Colorado. While several big oil companies, including Exxon, Chevron and Mobil, showed earnings gains in the past quarter, most petroleum experts see a lean future. Says Constantine Fliakos, who follows the industry for Merrill Lynch: "The last good news in the oil patch was the fourth-quarter results. We'll have to wait quite a while to hear anything like...
Keffer dazzled the Briggs crowd with her turnaround, double-pump, and lean-in jumpers, driving successfully inside and connecting from outside when the lanc was too clogged...
...paltry serving of sickly-looking lamb chops masqueraded as a rack of lamb (quote pretentious name from menu). A selection of fish dishes were uniformly dry and disappointing. A side order of hollandaise sauce could have come from your grocer's freezer. A self-professed lobster bisque was decidedly lean on the lobster...
Harvard boasts of its laissez-faire computer policy; for those with lean pocketbooks, it might be more accurately described as malign neglect. The University does not simply leave those unable to afford personal computers out in the cold—it burns them with scorn and degradation...