Word: leans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision the University must make is the same it confronts when buying stocks in businesses doing businesses in South Africa or nuclear arms-related research. It is a choice between profitability and morality. We urge Harvard to lean to the latter and develop an alternative plan that would maintain the building as housing for low-income tenants...
...from banks and retailers, have loosened their usury laws. In New York, for example, the legal limit on credit-card interest rose from 18% to 25%. Now that card issuers can charge more in many areas of the U.S., they are keeping rates high to make up for past lean years...
Clark was sustained by the work of a remarkable team. DeVries, 39, a lean, 6-ft. 5-in. former high jumper, is refreshingly indifferent to his sudden celebrity. Says he: "You lose credibility if you're too well known." A father of seven, he sleeps only four or five hours a night to make time for his family and the 16-hr, workday he favors. Typically, DeVries was standing vigil at Clark's side when his patient died...
...were sitting at Harry's Bar and American Grill in a city called Los Angeles. It was judgment night for the Sixth Annual International Imitation Hemingway Competition. If you have been to Ernest Hemingway judgment night, then you know how it is. Six judges reading the entries. Spare lean entries. Parodies. The winner was a woman named Lynda Leidiger, 30, with a story about a Valley Girl in a shopping mall. "In the Galleria, it was fine. Sometimes clean and warm and bright. Sometimes clean and warm and cold . .. She had been there as long as the concrete, longer...
...Beckett, no carrots, almost no gloom, but surreal Acts Without Words nonetheless. Scene: a bare Broadway stage. Standing, center, a man a week shy of 60 but supple as a teenager, lean in tights, innocent in whiteface...