Word: leans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Lloyd's fat years have been followed by a lean period, this unlimited liability rule and a string of heavy claims threaten the members of some syndicates with personal bankruptcy. Losses totaling about $340 million have been incurred from insuring U.S. computer-lease contracts that were prematurely canceled when IBM came out with a better machine. Furthermore, last year a disastrous 2.3 million tons of shipping were lost-including what may become the biggest marine claim ever, the sinking in the Caribbean in July of a 293,000-ton oil tanker, the Atlantic Empress. In addition, members face...
...implications of the Afghanistan and Iran incidents, the ten-term Congressman consistently decries American dependence on foreign oil. "We've been literally immobilized by the fear that our oil could be shut off," Anderson--who advocates increased research on solar power--told a suburban Boston audience last week. "A lean, taut budget," one that will require states and cities to "forego for a year or two" some federally funded programs, is Anderson's remedy for an economy stretched thin by inflation...
Everyone sees Eric. It is cool just to be in the same town with him. The people who don't have tickets for his events lean against the fence around the speed skating rink like refugees, shouting desperately every time he circles by. They love him madly; he is a hero. And it is clear that he loves them back. "Good luck, Eric," a random fan calls out as he whizzes by on a trial run, and Eric literally stops dead in his tracks and spins around and squints up at the crowd in the direction of the voice...
...latest survey, taken in late January, that ranking was stunningly reversed. To find out what caused so many people to change their minds, TIME correspondents across the nation interviewed a sampling of the ex-Kennedy supporters who had been polled by Yankelovich. Most of them now lean toward Carter...
...exhibitionist will, speed skating seems tame to Americans, an exercise grindingly precise, an icy, athletic watchmaking. Only in recent weeks have Eric and Beth Heiden, the brother-and-sister speed skaters from Madison, Wis., begun to educate Americans about the beauties of their sport: the swoopingly powerful grace, the lean, economical rhythms of a skater swinging over very fast, gray-blue ice, bright, silver shavings leaping minutely in the sun with every snick of the skate blade. In Norway and The Netherlands, citadels of the sport, Eric is an athletic hero. As the Olympics approached, he acquired celebrity...