Word: leans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even the sumptuous elegance of Tiffany's is no match for Hepburn's long, lean and striking grace...
...Jenkins" is Buck Jenkins, a lean 6'5" guard who made first-team All-Ivy last year and should repeat this season. In just 25 minutes of playing time against the Crimson he scored 25 points, 15 of them on long-distance three-pointers...
...allies. His choice of the amiable Thomas ("Mack") McLarty as White House , chief of staff -- and the notable lack of a strong-armed Washington veteran elsewhere in the West Wing -- suggests that he intends to continue making most of the decisions himself. Clinton admits his tendency toward micromanagement -- "I lean toward getting into the details of it," he acknowledged last week -- but added, "As I get more comfortable with it, I'll be able to delegate more and more...
Peter Matthiessen is talking on a leisurely Sunday afternoon in a secluded sunlit space at his six-acre compound on Long Island, New York. His shaggy black yakling of a dog, Tess of the Baskervilles, is sitting at his feet, and he is stretching out his long, strikingly lean -- somewhat cranelike -- legs into the sun, picking up clumps of grass as he talks, and now and then turning off the tape recorder with a desultory toe. Already this week he's been to Idaho and Colorado to attend a conference on freedom of speech and the American novel...
...global slump, Japan's automakers face increasingly tough, lean rivals. In the U.S., where total auto sales increased an estimated 1.5% in 1992 over the previous year, the once burgeoning Japanese share of the market has retreated slightly, to 30%. The strong yen and an attempt to inflate prices overseas to offset weak profits at home have made Japanese vehicles more expensive in the U.S. A mid-priced American-built car now typically costs $1,500 less than its Japanese counterpart. Another factor is that Japanese companies are weak in the light-truck category, where such vehicles as Dodge pickups...