Word: leans
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...each experience taught him more about his craft and prepared him for Unforgiven, a lean and provocative antiwestern in which the good guys are not so swell and the bad guys are not entirely deserving of their fate. For Eastwood it was something new, garbed in familiar cowboy clothing. Only after the final gunfight does the director allow his alter ego, the actor, to indulge in a brief valedictory to the satiric excess that characterized the Eastwood of an earlier era. "Any son of a bitch who takes a shot at me," gunman William Munny bellows into the night...
...cooperatives, or HIPCs -- which will contract with insurance companies to provide health-care plans for consumers, including the poor and unemployed. In theory, the HIPCs will force the insurance companies to compete to come up with the lowest-cost plan, which will in turn cause the insurance companies to lean on doctors and hospitals to hold down their costs. Thus, whatever else happens under managed competition, the insurance companies will cease to be mere money handlers and become the very organizers and arbiters of care...
...always get the khorma--only because I'm into nuts," says lean Thong...
Wright Dickinson, 32, fourth-generation cattleman, lean as a post, had one troubled eye on the weather reports of storms tumbling over his family's land along the Green River in Wyoming and Colorado, the other on news accounts of plans to raise the $1.86 grazing fee (a cow and her calf for a month) to $3 or maybe $5 or even $10. Away from the floodlit Capitol dome, he said quietly, "We are standing on the edge of an abyss. It's scary. Unless we can find some basis for a rational discussion, we could lose...
...energy -- coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear and hydroelectric power -- and for every use -- running cars and trains, heating homes, firing factory boilers, generating electricity. A 5% ad valorem tax would raise about $18 billion a year over the next five years. A BTU tax, which Clinton is said to lean toward, could be tailored to bring in just about any amount of money desired, but would probably be aimed to raise $18 billion to $25 billion a year. At the $18 billion level, either would cost an average family about $100 a year in price increases forced...