Word: leans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nomination out of pique over his Western-lands policy, the politicians appointed to the high court in the past. Finally, at about 2:30 a.m., with Clinton unflagging, Babbitt departed. Friends say he left feeling that while he still had a good chance at the nomination, the President would lean a long way toward his old friend, Judge Richard Arnold of Arkansas. Not until Friday -- at the tail end of the week in which he had promised a decision -- would Clinton make up his mind...
...hard to replace distinguished people who retire," Hankins says. "Next year might be kind of lean...
Williams estimates that there were 18 students packed into the room, and there were not enough chairs for all of them. Some were forced to stand or lean on window sills for the entire hour...
...goes -- on through fortune-hunting playboys and good-hearted whores, down to the last oppressed peon. Everything they do and say has been done and said before. But they simply refuse to admit it. The result is not epic cinema as David Lean defined it but as Bette Davis used to play it at Warner Bros. -- where history was a branch of melodrama and the subtler emotions were Xed out on the second-draft screenplay...
Things are good. The U.S. is lean and mean and at peace. Free trade is a priority, as are deficit reduction and education. Technology races ahead. We have a smart guy running the Federal Reserve (Greenspan) and another smart guy (Robert Rubin) advising the President -- who's damn smart himself. All of this bodes well. But the stock market in the short term doesn't care about any of that. It cares mainly about interest rates. You can argue that with the economy finally in gear, commodity prices and labor costs will begin to edge up. (Could the Teamsters strike...