Word: leans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each month President Neil L. Rudenstine and the deans of Harvard's eleven schools lean back in the plush chairs of Mass. Hall and talk. On the agenda is everything from the use of the Harvard name to the establishment of the University's international outposts...
There was no way to prepare for the first dive, no experience to lean on. Rene Poirier said a Hail Mary; that was his preparation. And then Poirier, a 36-year-old master seaman in the Canadian Navy, descended into the wreckage of Swissair Flight 111 off the coast of Nova Scotia...
...thoughts, her words, her world. Courtney Love: rocker, movie star, Hard Copy moving target. She enters a suite at the Chateau Marmont. Tall, lean, with pale, muscular arms and bare, nicked-up legs. She clears her throat as she strolls in, clearing it in a louder-than-she-needed-to, public-announcement way. Courtney Love: head turner, showstopper, superstar. Her band mates in her group Hole--guitarist Eric Erlandson and bassist Melissa Auf der Maur--have been waiting, relaxing on couches. Hole has a terrific new CD out, Celebrity Skin, the band's third release. The group has gone through...
...debatable whether such a virulent speaker ought to have been allowed to gather thousands of impressionable youths in the middle of the city, especially given the lean on public resources entailed. Once the event was given the go-ahead, Giuliani ought to have worked more closely with the community to insure a safe rally with as little additional racial antagonism as possible; Muhammad himself supplied enough of that...
Like American business generally, Harnischfeger entered this turmoil strong and lean. Well-managed with a skilled and productive work force, it had prospered from the past decade's explosive growth in global freedom and commerce. But then came the currency crisis that began in Thailand in July 1997 and spread like a contagion through the rest of Asia--and last month to Russia and last week to Latin America, hammering down local currencies and slashing demand for U.S. exports. Cheaper Asian exports began grabbing more and more domestic business away from U.S. companies and sliced into their earnings. That trend...