Word: leans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lean on elbows; nerves there can become irritated...
...Caterpillar took a more conventional, and controversial, lean-and-mean approach. In the early 1980s, says Glen Barton, group president for construction and mining machinery, Caterpillar's "costs were out of line with what overseas markets were willing to pay for our products"; the company lost $1.5 billion cutting prices below cost to meet the competition of Japan's Komatsu and other rivals. But Caterpillar has slashed its work force 31% in the past dozen years, and that has lowered costs and raised productivity: from sales of $886,000 per employee to $2.3 million. Losses have turned to profits...
...cuts of beef was just $3.12 this month, the lowest level since July. Because the beef supply remains high and wholesale prices are down, many grocers are able to feature meat at significant discounts. Cow-nnoisseurs take note: the six cuts included in the survey are regular and lean ground beef, boneless round steak, boneless top sirloin, T-bone steak and boneless chuck roll roast...
...Aristide is a slender reed on which to lean. No one is certain whether to trust his promises of a program that sounds rather conservative. He says he intends to decentralize Haiti's government, cut the army to about 1,500 people, reduce the bloated civil service, lower tariffs and increase imports of food and other supplies the nation cannot immediately produce for itself, , concentrate on building up the private sector and court private and foreign investment. Pursuing his theme of reconciliation, last week he promised the Haitian army -- that supposed gang of murderous thugs -- that far from seeking revenge...
Misterios marks the coming of age of a musician who endured his share of lean times. A dozen years ago, Roney, then 22, sold nearly everything he owned -- "my books, my records, my jacket," he says -- to leave Boston for New % York City, the world's jazz oasis. But when he arrived, it was more like a desert. He couldn't afford the $500 to buy his own horn. "There weren't too many gigs coming my way," he remembers. To practice, he had to borrow an old instrument a friend was using to hold flowers. At night he slept...