Word: leans
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...Most Kuwaitis were spoiled beyond imagination," says Saud Nasser al- Sabah, Kuwait's ambassador to the U.S. Except at KPC and the investment office, lean and mean because they were (and still are) the lifeblood of the country, merit counted for nothing. "There was no accountability," says Khalifa, "because government employees were promoted automatically. It was impossible to fire civil servants. Several years ago the parliament passed an amazing law. In effect, it said that if someone was performing poorly, he would have been fired. But, says this law, since he was not fired, then by definition he was performing...
...directing adolescent stories such as The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Columbus has an affinity for tales of the young told by the young (he directed Adventures in Babysitting and wrote Gremlins and Young Sherlock Holmes). "For this picture I was mostly inspired by old David Lean films," he says, "particularly Oliver Twist and Great Expectations, because they are told from a child's perspective. No one has shown the terror of being a child in an adult world better than Lean...
Kolvenbach must lean on reduced forces to tackle the Eastern Europe assignment and other challenges to his men. Although the Jesuits remain the biggest Catholic male religious order, they have declined from a 1965 peak of 36,000 members to the current 23,870 or so. The rate of loss is slowing, however, and the number of seminarians has increased steadily since the nadir in the 1970s. Significantly, the sources of decline are largely limited to the First World; 63% of today's Jesuit recruits worldwide are Asians, Africans and Latin Americans. There are 3,522 Jesuits in the area...
BUSINESS: Retailers brace for a lean Christmas...
...Lean Deluxe owes its slimmed-down status to a special ingredient -- water -- plus an algae-based food additive. One thing that will not be slimmed down is the price: in Harrisburg, Pa., where the Lean Deluxe is being test-marketed, it costs 5 cents to 10 cents more than the quarter-pounder...