Word: leans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Northrop Corp. bills its F-20 Tigershark jet as a lean, mean, less costly fighting machine. Its rival for the affections of Pentagon purchasers is General Dynamics' F-16 Fighting Falcon, the trim singleengine warplane that has been an Air Force staple for 2 1/2 years. Originally designed primarily for foreign sales, the F-20 has not sold a single plane; apparently foreign buyers are not interested in a plane that the Pentagon will not buy. In an attempt to crack the market, Northrop made an extraordinary offer to sell 396 F-20s to the Pentagon at $15 million apiece...
...freshman in year, Princeton and Yale were the big teams," Kaulman said, remembering the lean years. "They seemed so domineering I thought we would never beat them...
Humberto Torres sat in a lean-to in a camp about 100 miles north of Managua last week, cradling the youngest of his five children, as he recalled his forced evacuation in March from Los Encuentros, a hamlet in northern Nicaragua. "The Sandinistas made us get out," he said, "because they told us they were going to destroy the houses." Like some 50,000 other peasants, Torres, 56, and his family have been moved south by the government in an effort to isolate an estimated 8,000 U.S.-supported contra rebels roaming through Nicaragua's five northern provinces. Villages...
...network news might be vulnerable, although Capital Cities generally leaves high-quality journalistic operations alone. Still, as one concerned ABC middle manager fretted, "A lot of people are walking around worried." A producer for ABC News's 20/20 program said, "Capital Cities has a reputation for being a very lean company. They have no corporate legal department, they have no personnel department--none of the accoutrements of a big corporation." Capital Cities may take a knife to the $750 million that ABC executives fancied spending on the Summer Olympics in Seoul in 1988. That is more than twice what...
...getting accepted to one of his "top-ten" law schools are probably slimmer than his book (127 pages). Packaging is very serious about being remedial. The book is typeset with letters large enough for Dr. Seuss captions. And it is written, according to Yao, "like a good legal memorandum..lean, basic, and in plain English" I don't know about the "legal memorandum" stuff, but Yao isn't kidding about the plain English. A sample: "Misspellings and typos often overlap. It is sometimes hard to tell if we have a typo or a misspellings. Typos and misspellings can be very...